colony organization Quotes

The instincts of the ant are very unimportant, considered as the ants; but the moment a ray of relation is seen to be a monitor, a little body with a mighty heart, then all its habits, even that said to be recently observed, that it never sleeps, become sublime.

I kinda always wanted to be an ant.

For so work the honey bees, creatures that by a rule in nature teach the act of order to a peopled kingdom.

Not all ants use violence to dominate their world, some use more subtle methods.

Ants are so much like human beings as to be an embarrasment...They do everything but watch television.

Is there a polity better ordered, the offices better distributed, and more inviolably observed and maintained, than that of bees?

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