Beekeeping Quotes

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

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.

When was ever honey made with one bee in a hive?

Forget not bees in winter, though they sleep.

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

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

What is not good for the swarm is not good for the bees.

Everyone should have two or three hives of bees.

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

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

The beehives from the '60s were gorgeous. The big hair from the '80s wasn't.

Bees are sometimes drowned in the honey which they collectso some writers are lost in their collected learning.

If a queen bee were crossed with a Friesian bull, would not the land flow with milk and honey?

At 14, I was beehived out. I'm glad there are no pictures!

I married a university professor, raised a son, and worked as an academic librarian. My husband and I moved to the Ozarks, bought a farm, and started a commercial beekeeping business. And divorced.

When I heard that the bees were in trouble, the fact that they're disappearing and not coming back to the hive, which is a big issue, since a third of the food we eat comes from plants, I figured you couldn't tell the story of the bees without the story of the flowers and how they basically have evolved together for over 150 years.

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 am beekeeper, but I am also a writer, and some years ago, I sat down at a typewriter to experiment with words, to try to tease out of the amorphous, chaotic and wordless part of myself the reason why I was staying on this hilltop in the Ozarks after my first husband, with whom I had started a beekeeping business, and I had divorced.

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.

Lately I was near the beehives and some of the bees flew onto my face. I wanted to raise my hand, and brush them off. 'No,' said a peasant to me, 'do not be afraid, and do not touch them. They will not sting you at all, if you touch them they will bite you.' I trusted him; not one bit me. Trust me; do not fear these temptations. Do not touch them; they will not hurt you.

Take to every Gallon of Honey, three Gallons of water, and put them both together, and set them over so soft a fire, that you may endure to melt and break the honey with your hands.

I have a huge belief in the importance of bees, not just for their honey, which is a healing and delicious food, but the necessity of bee colonies that are vital to the health of the planet.

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

The only thing I'm afraid of is bees. I don't like bees. I'm allergic to them.