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“Nature attains perfection, but man never does. There is a perfect ant, a perfect bee, but man is perpetually unfinished. He is both an unfinished animal and an unfinished man. It is this incurable unfinishedness which sets man apart from other living things. For, in the attempt to finish himself, man becomes a creator. Moreover, the incurable unfinishedness keeps man perpetually immature, perpetually capable of learning and growing.”

Men Doe Perfect Animal Growing Capable Perfection Creator Bees Living Things Ants Immature Unfinished Learning And Growing

Book:Between the Devil and the Dragon: The Best Essays and Aphorisms of Eric Hoffer

Source: Between the Devil and the Dragon: The Best Essays and Aphorisms of Eric Hoffer

“Man may be considered as a superior species of animal that produces philosophies and poems in about the same way a silkworm produces their cocoons and bees their hives.”

Men Way May Philosophy Animal Produce Species Superiors Bees Cocoons Hives

Author:Hippolyte Taine

“Every child should have mud pies, grasshoppers, water bugs, tadpoles, frogs, mud turtles, elderberries, wild strawberries, acorns, chestnuts, trees to climb. Brooks to wade, water lilies, woodchucks, bats, bees, butterflies, various animals to pet, hayfields, pine-cones, rocks to roll, sand, snakes, huckleberries and hornets; and any child who has been deprived of these has been deprived of the best part of education.”

Source: The Training Of The Human Plant

“There never was any party, faction, sect, or cabal whatsoever, in which the most ignorant were not the most violent; for a bee is not a busier animal than a blockhead.”

Animal Party Violent Ignorant Bees Sects Factions Blockheads Busier Cabal

Book:The works of Alexander Pope. With a selection of explanatory notes, and the account of his life by dr. Johnson

Source: The works of Alexander Pope. With a selection of explanatory notes, and the account of his life by dr. Johnson

“Who would have thought the bees would have been the first alien force to invade America?”

Firsts Has Beens America Force Animal Aliens Bees

Author:Stirling Silliphant

“You know the animal that kills the most people in the world? The Hepatitis Bee.”

People Knows World Humor Funny Animal Bees Hepatitis

Author:Milton Jones

“It is absurd to talk of one animal being higher than another...we consider those, where the intellectual faculties most developed as the highest. - A bee doubtless would [use] ... instincts as a criteria.”

Use Animal Higher Highest Intellectual Instinct Absurd Faculty Bees Criteria

Author:Charles Darwin