Apiculture Quotes

If you want to gather honey, don't kick over the beehive.

Nothing gives a person more confidence... than to be zipped snugly inside a bee suit.

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

Everyone should have two or three hives of bees.

Bees are easier to keep than a dog or a cat. They are more interesting than gerbils. They can be kept anywhere.

When you hear buzz around the beehive, you know they're making honey in there.

If a queen bee were crossed with a Friesian bull, would not the land flow with milk and honey?

I can't pick a favorite animal; I love so many! But I guess if I have to choose, I pick bees! There's this brilliant documentary called 'Queen of the Sun: What Are the Bees Telling Us?' I think it's important for people to be educated about bees - they pollinate almost all the food we eat. They are amazing!

My bees cover one thousand square miles of land that I do not own in their foraging flights, flying from flower to flower for which I pay no rent, stealing nectar but pollinating plants in return.

I have a huge belief in the importance of bees, not just for their honey, which is a healing and delicious food, but the necessity of bee colonies that are vital to the health of the planet.

The keeping of bees is like the direction of sunbeams.

It's wonderful to me that bees have this simple, age-old thing going on.

No beehive. Beehives - we sort of put them - well, we revive them sometimes.

For a long, long time, nearly 40 years, I never had any bees. I can't think why.

Strictly speaking, one never 'keeps' bees - one comes to terms with their wild nature.

Beekeeping is farming for intellectuals.

I was named Beekeeper of the Year by the Florida State Beekeeping Association.

My partner loves gardening and beekeeping and chickens and all that stuff.

Then there is that other appeal, the stronger one, of spending, during certain parts of the year, a ten- or twelve- hour working day with bees, which are, when all is said and done, simply a bunch of bugs. But spending my days in close and intimate contact with creatures who are structured so differently from humans, and who get on with life in such a different way, is like being a visitor in an alien but ineffably engaging world.

There are certain pursuits which, if not wholly poetic and true, do at least suggest a nobler and finer relation to nature than we know. The keeping of bees, for instance.

I always feel that I have missed some good fortune if I am away from home when my bees swarm. What a delightful summer sound it is! How they come pouring out of the hive, twenty or thirty thousand bees, each striving to get out first!

I don't mind bees and think we are all the better for having them around. I like the taste of honey.

All I knew about bees when I started to write 'The Secret Life of Bees' was that they can live in a wall of your house, and that they make this incredible thing that I loved.

People say if bees die out, the world would end, apparently. Now, I don't know if that's true, if that's some bee enthusiast who managed to write a good document, and people believe this.

My elder son and his wife keep bees, and my younger son has bees, too.