„As a genius of construction man raises himself far above the bee in the following way: whereas the bee builds with wax that he gathers from nature, man builds with the far more delicate conceptual material which he first has to manufacture from himself.“

— Friedrich Nietzsche

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„If the bee disappears from the surface of the earth, man would have no more than four years to live. No more bees, no more pollination … no more men!“
— Albert Einstein
„This man is the bee's knees, Arthur, he is the wasp's nipples. He is, I would go so far as to say, the entire set of erogenous zones of every major flying insect of the Western world.“
— Douglas Adams
„In philosophical anthropology, … where the subject is man in his wholeness, the investigator cannot content himself, as in anthropology as an individual science, with considering man as another part of nature and with ignoring the fact that he, the investigator, is himself a man and experiences this humanity in his inner experience in a way that he simply cannot experience any part of nature.“
— Martin Buber
„The happiness of the bee and the dolphin is to exist. For man it is to know that and to wonder at it“
— Jacques-Yves Cousteau