‘It was the bumble bee and the butterfly who survived, not the dinosaur’ –Meridel Le Sueur

'Our treasure lies in the beehive of our knowledge. We are perpetually on the way thither, being by nature winged insects and honey gatherers of the mind’ –Nietzsche

‘If you want to gather honey, don’t kick over the beehive’ - Abraham Lincoln

‘The bee’s life is like a magic well: the more you draw from it, the more it fills with water’ - Karl Von Frisch