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.
Bees are easier to keep than a dog or a cat. They are more interesting than gerbils. They can be kept anywhere.
If you wanna find the honey / You can't be scared of the bees.
I like pulling on a baggy bee suit, forgetting myself and getting as close to the bees' lives as they will let me, remembering in the process that there is more to life than the merely human.
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.
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 realized I had it made because you don't have to destroy anything to get honey. You can just use the same things over and over again, put it in a quart canning jar, and you've got $12.
I actually grew up in a house in which bees lived in one of the walls, and they lived there 18 years, in fact, so it wasn't a fleeting thing.
My elder son and his wife keep bees, and my younger son has bees, too.
The day hums sweetly when you have enough bees working for you.
