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A multitude of bees can tell the time of day, calculate the geometry of the sun's position, argue about the best location for the next swarm. Bees do a lot of close observing of other bees; maybe they know what follows stinging and do it anyway.

— Lewis Thomas

Sentiment: NEGATIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

The bees learn where they live by landmarks. If they're moved within their home range, they get confused.

— Gene Robinson

It's wonderful to me that bees have this simple, age-old thing going on.

— Peter Fonda

When you go in search of honey you must expect to be stung by bees.

— Joseph Joubert

I don't mind bees and think we are all the better for having them around. I like the taste of honey.

— Henry Rollins

People say if bees die out, the world would end, apparently. Now, I don't know if that's true, if that's some bee enthusiast who managed to write a good document, and people believe this.

— Karl Pilkington

When you hear buzz around the beehive, you know they're making honey in there.

— Terrence Howard

I mean, I feel like you get more bees with honey. But that doesn't mean I don't get frustrated in my life.

— Beyonce Knowles

When I heard that the bees were in trouble, the fact that they're disappearing and not coming back to the hive, which is a big issue, since a third of the food we eat comes from plants, I figured you couldn't tell the story of the bees without the story of the flowers and how they basically have evolved together for over 150 years.

— Louie Schwartzberg

When the flower blossoms, the bee will come.

— Srikumar Rao

When the flower blooms, the bees come uninvited.

— Ramakrishna

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