Hives – Quotes

The revery alone will

The revery alone will do If bees are few. Emily Dickinson

To make a prairie

To make a prairie it takes a clover and one bee, – Emily Dickinson

To make a prairie

To make a prairie it takes a clover and one bee, One clover, and a bee, And revery. The revery alone will do, If bees are few. Emily Dickinson

I will not doubt, though sorrows fall like rain, And troubles swarm like bees about a hive; I shall believe the heights for which I strive Are only reached by anguish and by pain; And though I groan and tremble with my crosses, I yet shall see, through my severest losses, The greater gain. Ella … Read more

You are being trained

You are being trained to be a Queen, but you do not have to act like one until y ou get your own hive. Being a Queen will not overtax you as you will never be called upon to use your mind on any major matter. You will use the National Mind, their mind. It’s … Read more

The girl must early

The girl must early be impressed with the idea that she is to be \”a hand, not a mouth\”; a worker, and not a drone, in the great hive of human activity. Like the boy, she must be taught to look forward to a life of self-dependence, and early prepare herself for some trade or … Read more

And they brought an

And they brought an Owl, and a useful Cart, And a pound of Rice, and a CranberryTart, And a hive of silvery Bees. And they brought a Pig, and some green Jack-daws, And a lovely Monkey with lollipop paws, and forty Bottles of Ring-Bo-Ree, And no end of Stilton Cheese. Edward Lear

In youth, before I

In youth, before I waxe’ d old, The blind boy,Venus’ baby, For want of cunning made me bold, In bitter hive to grope for honey. Edmund Spenser

Just as the queen

Just as the queen bee, the highest-ranking, peerless creature of her hive, is surrounded by lowly drones to please her, whereas the workers produce honey, the same way is the one who sits on the throne an equal only to himself, and no one’s companion. Franz Grillparzer

I here present thee

I here present thee with a hive of bees, laden some with wax, and some with honey. Fear not to approach! there are no wasps, there are no hornets here. If some wanton bee chance to buzz about thine ears, stand thy ground and hold thy hands-there’s none will sting thee, if thou strike not … Read more