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Handle a book as a bee does a flower, extract its sweetness but do not damage it.

A big bee, a golden furry fellow, crept into a freesia, and the delicate flower leaned over, swung, ...

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Everything about her was sweet, pale like honey. You would not have been surprised to see a bee caug...

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One can no more approach people without love than one can approach bees without care. Such is the qu...

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If the bee disappeared off the face of the earth, man would only have four years left to live.

Darwin called such a process artificial, as opposed to natural, selection, but from the flower’s poi...

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Michael PollanThe Botany of Desire: A Plant's-Eye View of the World

Well, I will wear the bees, like Damon and Pythagoras – ho, a mere sixty thousand bees in the cabin ...

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I should send my bees ashore for you, upon my sacred honour.

When the flower blooms, the bees come uninvited.

Bees do have a smell, you know, and if they don't they should, for their feet are dusted with spices...

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...The world was really one bee yard, and the same rules work fine in both places. Don't be afraid, ...

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There is nothing perfect...only life.

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Sue Monk KiddThe Secret Life of Bees

A poor old Widow in her weedsSowed her garden with wild-flower seeds;Not too shallow, and not too de...

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I don't like to hear cut and dried sermons. No—when I hear a man preach, I like to see him act as if...

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You are the ocean, let the rivers come to you. You are the flower, let the bees come to you.

Mindfulness is not the path of chasing. It is the path of beautification. When flowers blossom, the ...

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Amit RayMindfulness Living in the Moment - Living in the Breath

Collaboration is the essence of life. The wind, bees and flowers work together, to spread the pollen...

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Amit RayMindfulness Living in the Moment - Living in the Breath

So at last Ilar Sant came to this wood, which people now call St. Hilary's wood because they have fo...

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For this,let gardens grow, where beelines end,sighing in roses, saffron blooms, buddleia;where bees ...

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Everything takes time. Bees have to move very fast to stay still.

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David Foster WallaceBrief Interviews with Hideous Men

To make a prairie it takes a clover and one bee,One clover, and a bee,And revery.The revery alone wi...

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Emily DickinsonThe Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson

It was my uncle who taught me about the birds and the bees. He sat me down one day and said, 'Rememb...

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