Quotes About Beekeeping

#1. I was named Beekeeper of the Year by the Florida State Beekeeping Association.

Peter Fonda

#2. 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

#3. 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

#4. Beekeeping is farming for intellectuals.

Sue Hubbell

#5. Every human being should show the greatest interest in beekeeping because our lives depend upon it.

Rudolf Steiner

#6. 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

#7. 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

#8. I first felt myself a shaky axis between worlds when I watched my grandfather move those prophetic queens.

S. Kelley Harrell

#9. 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

#10. Sometimes before we make a record I go back and listen to a few. It's equally humbling and uplifting.

Michael Stipe

#11. Even though I had a lucrative contract with MGM, I had a husband who was drinking and gambling our money away faster than I could make it.

Esther Williams

#12. 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

#13. Maybe it was just me shorting myself to hedge my expectations. As a fan, I was excited about the project. If you look at the body of work for the people involved, I was excited about the project, but I didn't really know. There were people saying, "I think we're going to be part of something huge."

Steven Yeun

#14. My house in Connecticut is very quiet, and when I'm trying to concentrate, I don't even allow the cat inside my second-floor study.

Thomas Mallon

#15. If neonicotinoids are the answer, what was the question?

June Stoyer

#16. It's almost just a difference of mood as to whether I would describe myself one way or the other. I think I share that experience with most people.

Jasper Johns

#17. This must be
what love is:

a pain so radiant
it cuts through all others.

Sara Eliza Johnson

#18. 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

#19. A sacred soul is a spiritual being.

Lailah Gifty Akita