Goulson Quotes

#1. In flight a bumblebee flaps its wings 200 times per second (which equals 12,000 rpm), roughly equivalent to the speed of a high-revving motorbike engine.

Dave Goulson

#2. Take time to smell the roses and eventually you'll inhale a bee. Anon.

Dave Goulson

#3. but then who said journalists need to know anything about their subject before spouting their ill-informed opinions to millions?

Dave Goulson

#4. This whole time I thought I was living. But the day I met you, the lights came on

J.B. Salsbury

#5. Sadly, one of the few places where bumblebees generally won't settle is in the bumblebee nest boxes widely sold in garden centres. Whatever

Dave Goulson

#6. Most of the rare species seemed to be very fond of clover, particularly red clover, and other wild legumes such as tufted vetch and bird's-foot trefoil, probably because these plants provide pollen that is unusually rich in protein.

Dave Goulson

#7. Many bees evolved longer and longer tongues to make it easier for them to reach nectar hidden within flowers; some now have tongues longer than their bodies.fn1

Dave Goulson

#8. Since the grasses are being parasitised, they grow less, leaving more room for other flowering plants. Pywell demonstrated that sowing rattle seed into an English meadow significantly boosted the diversity of flowers present by suppressing growth of grasses.

Dave Goulson

#9. a bumblebee with a full stomach is only ever about forty minutes from starvation.

Dave Goulson

#10. You ask what I have found and far and wide I go,
Nothing but Cromwell's house and Cromwell's murderous crew,
The lovers and the dancers are beaten into the clay,
And the tall men and the swordsmen and the horsemen where are they?

William Butler Yeats

#11. I think it's part of the DNA of human beings. We are a cooking animal. What differentiates us from all the other animals is that we cook and they don't.

Ruth Reichl

#12. The music of the busy bee Is drowsy, and it comforts me; But, ah! 'tis quite another thing, When that same bee concludes to sting! Andrew Downing (nineteenth-century American horticulturalist)

Dave Goulson

#13. It was all in my head and now all I had to do was figure out a way to get it down on paper.

Ann Patchett

#14. Our cares are the mothers, not only of our charities And virtues, but of our best joys and most cheering and enduring pleasures.

William Gilmore Simms

#15. The key to helping our rarer species to thrive is probably simply to add more flower patches to the landscape, making it a little easier for them to find food and keep their nests well provisioned.

Dave Goulson

#16. Type 94 Class, more commonly the Type 95 light tanks, and the general purpose medium Type 97s. A self-propelled gun based on the Type 97 was also encountered, and a further ageing medium, the Type 89B, was

Bryan Perrett

#17. There is plenty of homework to do!

Charlie N. Holmberg

#18. Smuts are parasitic fungi that are often spread by pollinators and so, in the case of campions, pollinators pose the double threat of both laying eggs that will hatch into voracious larvae and giving the flower a nasty dose of the clap.

Dave Goulson

#19. This worked pretty well; the nests in gardens tended to grow much more quickly and become heavier than those on farms, presumably because they have more flowers.

Dave Goulson

#20. And we had the perhaps unfair advantage of not having to worry about what an audience was gonna think. We were in a vacuum. We were making little short films, really.

Rick Moranis

#21. Ugly or beautiful, it is the little creatures that make the world go round. We should celebrate and appreciated them in all their wonderful diversity.

Dave Goulson

#22. James caught and measured the size of hundreds of wild, foraging buff-tails in and around Southampton, and found that the average size and tongue length varied greatly depending on which flower he caught them on.

Dave Goulson

#23. It is food - we now know that food is information, not just calories, and that it can upgrade your biologic software. The majority of chronic disease is primarily a food borne illness. We ate ourselves into this problem and we have to eat ourselves out of it.

Mark Hyman, M.D.

#24. It is easy to understand God as long as you don't try to explain him.

Joseph Joubert

#25. This is not just about bumblebees, but about creating a future environment for our children to enjoy, where there are still flowers, bees, butterflies and birds, and healthy crops to eat.

Dave Goulson

#26. Liars need to have good memories.

Algernon Sidney

#27. I like middles ... It is in middles that extremes clash, where ambiguity restlessly rules.

John Updike

#28. There is the Toilet Monster, who comes into the bathroom if you sit on the toilet for too long.

Abby Hanlon