Ramakrishna Quotes

When the flower blossoms, the bee will come.

I want viewers to see that everything is connected, even the little guys like pollinators and flowers.

Each crisis brings its word and deed.

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

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.

Without butterflies, the world would soon have few flowers. There is enough room in the sky for all flyers.

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.

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.

For every whack I've given, I've gotten four or five.

A brier rose whose buds yield fragrant harvest for the honey bee.

The idea that we can actually have an impact on places more or less instantly, too, by responding in some way or not responding, I think, also makes it true.

Everything is a reaction.

I think you have to be in the right place at the right time. And understand that and know when it is your time and how you react to it and how you respond to it.

From plants that wake when others sleep, from timid jasmine buds that keep their odour to themselves all day, but when the sunlight dies away let the delicious secret out to every breeze that roams about.

I'm always keen to head to where the greatest gravitation pull is tugging me.

One of the least arduous but most productive of gardening jobs, the magic of deadheading never fails to delight me. It was a revelation when the principle was explained to me: that flowers are the attempt by the plant to reproduce itself. So if you cut the heads off before the flower turns into seeds, the plant will continue to flower.

If you have this reputation you can sit back and endure it, or you can try to do things with it.

He who has provoked the lash of wit, cannot complain that he smarts from it.

A third of our food comes from pollinating plants.

What your foes do derives its significance or consequence from the way you react.

When someone doesn't react to changes, the changes turn against him.

I'm always amazed that people are shocked when their despicable action causes an equally despicable reaction.

Plants are decisive to a fault. A stem produces a bud that flowers once and once only. It offers pollen that is either dispersed or goes nowhere. One pollen grain either enters a stigma or it falls upon stony ground. An ovum is either fertilized or the whole project stalls out.

A crazy action only works if there's a great reaction.

If you play bad, people are going to let you know.