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Quote by Maurice Maeterlinck
If the bee disappeared off the face of the earth, man would only h

If the bee disappeared off the face of the earth, man would only have four years left to live. – Maurice Maeterlinck

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In the world which we know, among the different and primitive geniuses that preside over the evolution of the several species, there exists not one, excepting that of the dog, that ever gave a thought to the presence of man. – Maurice Maeterlinck

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It is not how busy you are, but why you are busy — the bee is praised, the mosquito is swatted. – Author Unknown

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Handle a book as a bee does a flower, extract its sweetness but do not damage it. – John Muir

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[T]he bees will buzz you a welcome from the hives at the end, and then the trees will stoop down about you, and you can look up into a green sky set with constellations of apples. – Margaret Troili, “Woods of Mendocino,” Out West: A Magazine of the O

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Opening a window to let out a fly and ending up with thirty midges, three wasps, two bees and an owl. – Rob Temple, @SoVeryBritish (Very British Problems: Making Life Awkward for Ourse

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