Quotes & Sayings About Beekeeping

But her curiosity got the better of her and at last she went back to where she'd left a big shallow basin of milk only the day before ... and found the surface of the milk invisible under a carpet of her bees. "Bees don't drink milk," she said to them. When they lifted and flew away the basin was empty and clean. — Robin McKinley

I was named Beekeeper of the Year by the Florida State Beekeeping Association. — Peter Fonda

I like pulling on a baggy bee suit, forgetting myself and getting as close to the bees' lives as they will let me, remembering in the process that there is more to life than the merely human. — Sue Hubbell

It was nearly dawn, and the hill was white with snow. She was covered with a thick blanket of bees, and the snow lay upon them in bright broken spangles. She sat up in distress - bees cannot survive hard cold outside their hives - but they seemed to shake themselves ... — Robin McKinley

If neonicotinoids are the answer, what was the question? — June Stoyer

She'd found she couldn't bring herself to kill any of her bees, which was the system all the northern demesnes used, and so had to get them through the winter somehow. She'd been cold that winter herself, after wrapping up her most exposed hives in all the blankets she had. — Robin McKinley

Every human being should show the greatest interest in beekeeping because our lives depend upon it. — Rudolf Steiner

Things that cannot long be kept secret: death in the family, the loss of a ring, corruption of the spirit, boredom, illicit love. Sickness. Addiction. Pregnancy. Within the pure white wimple of her beekeeping suit, wrapped in buzzing, — Catherynne M Valente

Beekeeping is farming for intellectuals. — Sue Hubbell

The only time I ever believed that I knew all there was to know about beekeeping was the first year I was keeping them. Every year since I've known less and less and have accepted the humbling truth that bees know more about making honey than I do. — Sue Hubbell

I first felt myself a shaky axis between worlds when I watched my grandfather move those prophetic queens. — S. Kelley Harrell

I became a slightly daft traveler, obsessed with beekeeping and professing to know all there was to know on the topic. I started arguments so others would correct me and speak of beekeepers they had known. — Robin Hobb

This must be
what love is:

a pain so radiant
it cuts through all others. — Sara Eliza Johnson

In fact, to be successful at organic beekeeping, it is even more important to learn to work with the natural biological processes and instinctive behaviors of the bees. — Ross Conrad