Karl von Frisch Quotes

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.

How to extract its honey from the flower of the world. That is my everyday business. I am as busy as a bee about it. I ramble over fields on that errand and am never so happy as when I feel myself heavy with honey and wax. I am like a bee searching the livelong day for the sweets of nature.

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

Green is the prime color of the world, and that from which its loveliness arises.

You can grow without destroying the things that you love.

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

Better than any argument is to rise at dawn and pick dew-wet red berries in a cup.

I need the seasons to live to the rhythm of rain and sun.

The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn.

I think optimism springs from nature. I'm a gardener. Nature has taught me about rhythm, the essence of every art. With so much that is terrible, nature gives me pleasure.

Nature has a way of giving back. And we can never go against it.

Maybe love is like rain. Sometimes gentle, sometimes torrential, flooding, eroding, joyful, steady, filling the earth, collecting in underground springs. When it rains, when we love, life grows.

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.

The little bee returns with evening's gloom, To join her comrades in the braided hive, Where, housed beside their might honey-comb, They dream their polity shall long survive.

It takes a bee to get the honey out

Every bees hony is sweet.

Bees do have a smell, you know, and if they don't they should, for their feet are dusted with spices from a million flowers.

Living in balance and purity is the highest good for you and the earth.

Man was born to be rich, or to inevitably grow rich, by the use of his faculties: by the union of thought with nature.

Nothing in nature takes more than what it needs

He who plants a tree, plants a hope.

To plant a garden is to believe in tomorrow.

Who has excess and supplies the world? Only the one who follows the Way.