Burt Shavitz Quotes

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!

Beekeeping is farming for intellectuals.

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

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

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

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

Everyone should have two or three hives of bees.

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

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.

Forget not bees in winter, though they sleep.

Actually, every human being should show the greatest interest in this subject, because, much more than you can imagine, our lives depend upon beekeeping.

The bee collects honey from flowers in such a way as to do the least damage or destruction to them, and he leaves them whole, undamaged and fresh, just as he found them.

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!

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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.