“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.” AgeKnowledgeBeesBeekeeping Book:A Book Of Bees: And How to Keep Them – A Melodious Beekeeping Memoir and Nature Journal from the Missouri Ozarks Source: A Book Of Bees: And How to Keep Them – A Melodious Beekeeping Memoir and Nature Journal from the Missouri Ozarks
“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.” HumansRememberProcessForgetLet MeSuitsBeesPullingMore To Life Book:A Book of Bees Source: A Book of Bees
“Then there is that other appeal, the stronger one, of spending, during certain parts of the year, a ten- or twelve- hour working day with bees, which are, when all is said and done, simply a bunch of bugs. But spending my days in close and intimate contact with creatures who are structured so differently from humans, and who get on with life in such a different way, is like being a visitor in an alien but ineffably engaging world.” WorldWayYearsHumansSaidDifferentDoneCertainHoursTenCreaturesStrongerSpendingBunchContactAliensAppealsDifferent WaysIntimateTwelveBeesEngagingBugsVisitorsSaid And Done Book:A Country Year: Living the Questions Source: A Country Year: Living the Questions