“Bees do have a smell, you know, and if they don't they should, for their feet are dusted with spices from a million flowers.”

“You are like one of your bees, going from flower to flower, sampling the nectar of this and that.”

Nick Drake (poet) (1961) British writer

“I do not ask that flowers should always spring
Beneath my feet
I know too well the poison and the sting
Of things too sweet.”

Adelaide Anne Procter (1825–1864) English poet and songwriter

“The bee and the serpent often sip from the selfsame flower.”

Pietro Metastasio (1698–1782) Italian poet and librettist (born 3 January 1698, died 12 April 1782)

“The flower doesn’t dream of the bee. It blossoms and the bee comes.”

Mark Nepo (1951) American writer

“Bee, why are you staring at me? I am not a flower??”

Jack Kerouac (1922–1969) American writer

“Handle a book as a bee does a flower, extract its sweetness but do not damage it.”

John Muir (1838–1914) Scottish-born American naturalist and author

“I smell fennel,” Launcelot said. “That reminds me, I should tell you I have discovered a specific for maims. You take salt, good-quality river mud, and bee urine, and slather it on the maim and hold it there for two days. Works like a charm. Gathering the bee urine is a bit of a bore.”

Donald Barthelme (1931–1989) American writer, editor, and professor

“When you have a full bouquet you can't sit back and smell each flower.”

Avner Strauss (1954) Israeli musician

“Once you get a spice in your home, you have it forever. Women never throw out spices. The Egyptians were buried with their spices. I know which one I'm taking with me when I go.”

Erma Bombeck (1927–1996) When I stand before God at the end of my life, I would hope that I would not have a single bit of talent le…