Jean Henri Fabre Quotes

I have great genes. Thank you to my mom and dad for that one.

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

Let us make future generations remember us as proud ancestors just as, today, we remember our forefathers.

The ant world is a tumult, a noisy world of pheromones being passed back and forth.

Bees are not as busy as we think they are. They just can't buzz any slower.

Concerning the generation of animals akin to them, as hornets and wasps, the facts in all cases are similar to a certain extent, but are devoid of the extraordinary features which characterize bees; this we should expect, for they have nothing divine about them as the bees have.

No living creature, not even man, has achieved, in the centre of his sphere, what the bee has achieved in her own: and were some one from another world to descend and ask of the earth the most perfect creation of the logic of life, we should needs have to offer the humble comb of honey.

Such simple instincts as bees making a beehive could be sufficient to overthrow my whole theory.

Has it ever occurred to you how lucky you are to be alive? More than 99 percent of all the creatures that have ever lived have died without progeny, but not a single one of your ancestors falls into that group! ... Not a single one of your ancestors, all the way back to the bacteria, succumbed to predation before reproducing, or lost out in the competition for a mate.

A dead Bee maketh no Hony.

The bee fertilizes the flower it robs.

There is nothing to be found in a beehive that is not submerged in a bee. And yet you can search a bee forever with cyclotron and fluoroscope, and you will never find the hive.

If there's a buzzing-noise, somebody's making a buzzing-noise, and the only reason for making a buzzing-noise that I know of is because you're a bee.

Worker bees can leave. Even drones can fly away. The Queen is their slave.

The bee is more honored than other animals, not because she labors, but because she labors for others.

For bees are captious folk / And quick to turn against the lubber's touch.

Unlike the male codfish which, suddenly finding itself the parent of three million five hundred thousand little codfish, cheerfully resolves to love them all, the British aristocracy is apt to look with a somewhat jaundiced eye on its younger sons.

So, the ant way of life is very ancient and very successful. As far as human beings are concerned, we've been around for only one million years--too soon be sure.

LEGACY, n. A gift from one who is legging it out of this vale of tears.

O bees, sweet bees!" I said; "that nearest field Is shining white with fragrant immortelles Fly swiftly there and drain those honey wells.

Honey bees are amazing creatures. I mean, think about it, do earwigs make chutney?

Sometimes human beings are very much like bees. Bees are fiercely protective of their hive, provided you are outside it. Once you’re in, the workers sort of assume that it must have been cleared by management and take no notice; various freeloading insects have evolved a mellifluous existence because of this very fact. Humans act the same way.