“One can no more approach people without love than one can approach bees without care. Such is the quality of bees…”
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Leo Tolstoy 456
Russian writer 1828–1910Related quotes

“As the birds do love the spring,
Or the bees their careful king”
Diaphenia

[2005, Stations of Wisdom, World Wisdom, 102, 978-0-94153218-1]
God, Reverential fear and love

A variant — "Professor Einstein, the learned scientist, once calculated that if all bees disappeared off the earth, four years later all humans would also have disappeared" — appears in The Irish Beekeeper, v.19-20, 1965-66, p74, citing Abeilles et Fleurs (Bees and Flowers, the house magazine of Union Nationale de l'Apiculture Française) for June 1965. Snopes.com mentions its use in a beekeepers' protest in 1994 in Europe http://www.snopes.com/quotes/einstein/bees.asp suggesting invention and attribution to Einstein for political reasons.
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“One can give without loving, but one cannot love without giving”
A Chance to Die.The life and Legacy of Amy Carmichael, Elisabeth Elliot, Revell, 1987.

Out of Control: The New Biology of Machines, Social Systems and the Economic World (1995)

“No one can say which approach is the right one — so no one can say how close we are to a solution.”
On developing a unification of quantum theory, relativity and classical physics, "Conversation with Martin Rees" at the Templeton Foundation (1 June 2012) https://www.templeton.org/who-we-are/media-room/video-and-audio/conversation-with-martin-rees