#bees

It was a great thing to be a human being. It was something tremendous. Suddenly I'm conscious of a million sensations buzzing in me like bees in a hive. Gentlemen, it was a great thing. ↗

— Karel Capek

#being #buzzing #conscious #gentlemen #great

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

#alone #bee #bees #clover #few

Religion was nearly dead because there was no longer real belief in future life; but something was struggling to take its place - service - social service - the ants creed, the bees creed. ↗

— John Galsworthy

#because #bees #belief #creed #dead

When I hear a man preach, I like to see him act as if he were fighting bees. ↗

— Abraham Lincoln

#bees #fighting #hear #him #i