„The pedigree of honey Does not concern the bee;A clover, any time, to himIs aristocracy.“

— Emily Dickinson

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„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
„Once, I saw a bee drown in honey, and I understood.“
— Nikos Kazantzakis
„See how involved it gets? Clover, bees, nitrogen, escape speed, power, plant-animal balance, gas laws, compound interest laws, meteorology—a mathematical ecologist has to think of everything and think of it ahead of time. Ecology is explosive; what seems like a minor and harmless invasion can change the whole balance.“
— Robert A. Heinlein
„"If there's a buzzing-noise, somebody's making a buzzing-noise, and the only reason for making a buzzing-noise that I know of is because you're a bee."Then he thought another long time, and said: "And the only reason for being a bee that I know of is making honey."And then he got up, and said: "And the only reason for making honey is so I can eat it." So he began to climb the tree.“
— A.A. Milne
„…an intellectual instinct which extracts the essence from the phenomena of life, as a bee sucks honey from a flower. In addition to study and reflections, life itself serves as a source.“
— Carl von Clausewitz