Word Buzz The Honey Question

Our collection of bee quotes and sayings will keep you as busy as a bee.

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When you buy just 16 ounces of honey, there are a thousand bees behind it that traveled over a hundred thousand miles and visited more than 4.5 million flowers. It is no wonder that many great men and women have been inspired to study these beautiful creatures and write amazing phrases, poems, and songs on them. It is not just about their beauty and inspiring hard work, bees are also essential for human existence.

Honey bees are so important to humans that they are the most studied creature, second only to human beings. Here are some beautiful bee quotes from some famous folks.

Best Quotes Bees

Bees do have a smell, you know, and if they don’t they should, for their feet are dusted with spices from a million flowers.
Ray Bradbury

If we die, we’re taking you with us.
The Bees

We come from the earth, we return to the earth, and in between we garden.
Unknown

The busy bee has no time for sorrow.
William Blake

A bee is an exquisite chemist.
Royal Beekeeper to Charles II

The bee is domesticated but not tamed.
William Longgood

Quotes About Bees

Words are like bees – some create honey and others leave a sting.
Unknown

When the bee comes to your house, let her have a beer; you may want to visit the bee’s house someday.
Congo Proverb

You are the bee’s knees.
A popular saying in the 1920s like cat’s pajamas

Hope is the only bee that makes honey without flowers.
Robert Green Ingersoll

That which is not good for the bee-hive cannot be good for the bees.
Marcus Aurelius

Take time to smell the roses and eventually you’ll inhale a bee.
Unknown

For bees, the flower is the fountain of life/For flowers, the bee is the messenger of love.
Kahlil Gibran

Bee Quotes

The happiness of the bee and the dolphin is to exist. For a man it is to know that and to wonder at it.
Jacques Yves Cousteau

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

The men of experiment are like the ant; they only collect and use. But the bee…gathers its materials from the flowers of the garden and of the field, but transforms and digests it by a power of its own.
Leonardo da Vinci

The lovely flowers embarrass me,
They make me regret I am not a bee.
Emily Dickinson

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

Let us linger a while in the wonderful old Lilac walk. It is a glory of tender green and shaded amethyst and the grateful hum of bees, the very voice of Spring.
Alice Morse Earle

It takes a bee 10,000,000 trips to collect enough nectar to make 1 pound of honey.
Sue Monk Kidd

To make a prairie it takes a clover and one bee,
One clover, and a bee,
And revery.
The revery alone will do,
If bees are few.
Emily Dickinson

The Hum

The hum of bees is the voice of the garden.
Elizabeth Lawrence

We think we can make honey without sharing in the fate of bees, but we are in truth nothing but poor bees, destined to accomplish our task and then die.
Muriel Barbery

Don’t wear perfume in the garden — unless you want to be pollinated by bees.
Anne Raver

A bee is never as busy as it seems; it’s just that it can’t buzz any slower.
Kin Hubbard

Keeping of bees is like the direction of sunbeams.
Henry David Thoreau

The pedigree of honey does not concern the bee, a clover, anytime, to him, is aristocracy.
Emily Dickinson

The bee collects honey from flowers in such a way as to do the least damage or destruction to them, and he leaves them whole, undamaged and fresh, just as he found them.
Saint Francis de Sales

A work of art; and yet no art of man,
Can work, this work, these little creatures can.
Geffrey Whitney

One can no more approach people without love than one can approach bees without care. Such is the quality of bees…
Leo Tolstoy

Bee to the blossom, moth to the flame; Each to his passion; what’s in a name?
Helen Hunt Jackson

The bee is more honored than other animals, not because she labors, but because she labors for others.
St. John Chrysostom

The Birds and The Bees Quotations

The bee’s life is like a magic well: the more you draw from it, the more it fills with water
Karl Von Frisch

Listen to the bees and let them guide you.
Brother Adam

Every saint has a bee in his halo.
Elbert Hubbard

He is not worthy of the honey-comb/That shuns the hives because the bees have stings.
William Shakespeare

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 he were fighting bees.
Abraham Lincoln

Even bees, the little almsmen of spring bowers, know there is richest juice in poison-flowers.
John Keats

The siren heralds a friend, the bee a stranger.
Hilda M. Ransome

Our treasure lies in the beehive of our knowledge. We are perpetually on the way thither, being by nature winged insects and honey gatherers of the mind.
Nietzsche

Bees work for man, and yet they never bruise/Their Master’s flower, but leave it having done/As fair as ever and as fit to use/So both the flower doth stay and honey run.
George Herbert

Einstein Bee Quote

If the bee disappeared off the surface of the globe, then man would have only four years of life left. No more bees, no more pollination, no more plants, no more animals, no more man.
Albert Einstein

Sting like a Bee Quote

Float like a butterfly, sting like a bee – His hands can’t hit what his eyes can’t see.
Muhammad Ali

Tips for how to help save bees.

Honey Bee Quotations

For so work the honey bees, creatures that by a rule in nature teach the act of order to a peopled kingdom.
William Shakespeare

No bees, no honey; no work, no money.
Proverb

We’re all busy little bees, full of stings, making honey day and night, aren’t we honey?
Bette Davis

The secret of my health is applying honey inside and oil outside.
Democritus

The only reason for being a bee that I know of is to make honey… And the only reason for making honey is so I can eat it.
Winnie the Pooh

If you want to gather honey, don’t kick over the beehive.
Abraham Lincoln

For the rest, whatever we have got has been by infinite labor, and search, and ranging through every corner of nature; the difference is that instead of dirt and poison, we have rather chosen to fill our hives with honey and wax, thus furnishing mankind with the two noblest of things, which are sweetness and light.
Jonathan Swift

If you have no honey in your pot, have some in your mouth.
Benjamin Franklin

A Bee Fun Fact

Honeybees pollinate 80 percent of the United States’ insect crops – over $20 billion worth of crops each year – according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture estimates.

Check out Sunflower Fun Facts.

The Secret Life of Bees Quotes

Someone who thinks death is the scariest thing doesn’t know a thing about life.
Sue Monk Kidd

Supernatural men of letters bunker. Welcome to!Dedicated to the TV show Supernatural.

Well if you have a queen and a group of independent-minded bees that split off from the rest of the hive and look for another place to live, then you’ve got a swarm.
August

If you need something from somebody always give that person a way to hand it to you.
Sue Monk Kidd

Our mother said she was like Mary, with her heart on the outside of her chest.
August

It is the peculiar nature of the world to go on spinning no matter what sort of heartbreak is happening.
Sue Monk Kidd

Most people don’t have any idea about all the complicated life going on inside a hive. Bees have a secret life we don’t know anything about.
August

After you get stung, you can’t get unstung
no matter how much you whine about it.
Sue Monk Kidd

Akeelah and the Bee Quotes

You know that feeling where everything feels right? Where you don’t have to worry about tomorrow or yesterday, where you feel safe and know you’re doing the best you can? There’s a word for that, it’s called love. L-O-V-E.
Akeelah

Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. We ask ourselves, Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be? We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same.
Akeelah

Okay. But when I’m at the bee, and they tell me to spell some little fish from Australia or some weird bacteria on the moon, we’re going to wish we’d done a little bit more rote-memorizing and not so much essay reading. If you don’t mind me saying.
Akeelah

Queen Bee Sayings

I’m just getting better and better. It’s just like a bunch of worker bees protecting the king bee because I’m not a queen bee. I’m a king bee.
Shaquille O’Neal

To be successful, one has to be one of three bees: the queen bee, the hardest working bee, or the bee that does not fit in.
Suzy Kassem

Just as the queen bee, the highest-ranking, a peerless creature of her hive, is surrounded by lowly drones to please her, whereas the workers produce honey, the same way is the one who sits on the throne an equal only to himself, and no one’s companion.
Franz Grillparzer

Bumblebee Quotes

Aerodynamically, the bumblebee shouldn’t be able to fly, but the bumblebee doesn’t know it so it goes on flying anyway.
Mary Kay Ash

Life is full of beauty. Notice it. Notice the bumble bee, the small child, and the smiling faces. Smell the rain, and feel the wind. Live your life to the fullest potential, and fight for your dreams.
Ashley Smith

It was the bumblebee and the butterfly who survived, not the dinosaur.
Meridel Le Sueur

When poets go off the boil, they sound like bumblebees;
critics do, they sound like sewing machines.
Mason Cooley

Work hard; stay bumble.
Unknown

— Mike O’Halloran

Mike is the founder and editor of Greeting Card Poet.

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If his children were still in primary school, Adrian Dyer says he would have a new motivational phrase to get them to do their math homework: “Come on, it can’t be that hard. The bees can do it, too.”The professor at RMIT University in Melbourne, Australia, is part of a team of researchers studying honeybees’ numerical comprehension.

Their latest paper, published Wednesday, reveals evidence that the bees just might be able to do addition and subtraction.This is not the first study to find evidence that nonhuman animals can be number crunchers. Orb-weaving spiders search for prey items stolen from their webs, suggesting that they keep running tallies. Some schooling fish seem to keep a head count of their friends. And pigeons (and monkeys) can rank quantities from smallest to largest.There is some controversy over nonhuman animal arithmetic discoveries.

Do they actually understand numbers like we do? Or is it more of an ability to understand relative quantities? Sorting out these questions could help scientists figure out just how special human mathematics can be – and possibly how our species came to rule the world.

What’s the first image that comes to mind when you think of mathematics? Perhaps it’s formulas scribbled on a chalkboard. Or maybe architectural drawings. Or rocket trajectories. Regardless, there is likely a human hand behind it.But researchers say that humans might not be the only number crunchers in the animal kingdom.

Honeybees may also be able to add and subtract, according to published Wednesday in the journal Science Advances.And it’s not the first study to find evidence that nonhuman animals have minds for numbers. Search for prey items stolen from their webs, suggesting that they keep running tallies. Some seem to keep a head count of their friends. And (and monkeys) can rank quantities from smallest to largest. There is some controversy over animal arithmetic discoveries. Do they actually understand numbers like we do?

Or is it more of an ability to understand relative quantities? Sorting out these questions could help scientists figure out just how special human mathematics can be.The new bee study falls right in that controversial sweet spot. Study authors termed what the bees did addition and subtraction. But some scientists say that calling it mathematics may be overinterpreting the results.In the experiment, the Apis mellifera bees were placed in a Y-shaped maze. Upon entering the stem of the Y, the bees encountered a set of either blue or yellow shapes.

Blue indicated the problem would require the bees to add one shape, yellow to subtract one. When they approached the fork in the Y, the bees then had to choose between two more sets of shapes. The correct choice was either one less or one more than the original display, depending on the color. The incorrect choice could be any other quantity from 1 to 5.Nearly 7 times out of 10, the bees chose correctly. The results suggest the bees were doing more than simply identifying which was “more” or “less,” says Professor Dyer, as both options could be greater than the original display for addition problems (vice versa for subtraction) and they’d still pick the correct answer. “The main hallmark of numerical discrimination in animals,” Professor Brannon says, has to do with ratios.

“When animals are comparing two numerical values, they’re much better if they differ by a large ratio than if they differ by a very small ratio.”Brannon herself trained monkeys to do addition and subtraction, with a similar method to the bee study. And she found that the monkeys could get the correct answer only if the ratio between the two choices was significant enough. For example, she explains, the monkeys could get the correct answer to 17 minus 7 if the choices were 10 and 5, but not if they were 10 and 9. The use of symbols to denote specific numbers and mathematical functions was once thought to be unique to humans.But this new study suggests that honeybees might be capable of using symbols, too, as the insects were trained to respond to blue and yellow as labels for addition and subtraction.When studying animal cognition, the training element is key, says Rosa Rugani, a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Pennsylvania. Being capable of using symbols and naturally using them in their own wild environments are two different things. “Animals, to survive in their natural environment, they don’t need to reach this level of abstraction,” Dr. They don’t need to have “+” or “-”. They just need to be able to gauge food resources, keep track of their group, navigate, and assess the threat of a pack of predators.

So it may be more of an indication of an animal’s ability to learn labels, rather than a mind for math.To separate out those two things, Rugani has studied number cognition in newborn domestic chicks. Her results have suggested they may have a concept of a and can tackle some. So what sets humans apart?So are we humans predispositioned to have our numerical capabilities, or is it a learned or trained behavior?