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The bee collects honey from flowers in such a way as to do the least damage or destruction to them, and he leaves them whole, undamaged and fresh, just as he found them.

— Saint Francis de Sales

Sentiment: POSITIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

If you want to gather honey, don't kick over the beehive.

— Dale Carnegie

Hope is the only bee that makes honey without flowers.

— Robert Green Ingersoll

Man produces evil as a bee produces honey.

— William Golding

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

— Terrence Howard

When the flower blossoms, the bee will come.

— Srikumar Rao

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

— Henry Rollins

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

We stole a box of honey jars one time and went out in the woods and took care of the whole box. I don't think I touched honey again for 20 years. I never wanted to see honey again.

— Quincy Jones

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

✗Opposing Perspectives

When the flower blooms, the bees come uninvited.

— Ramakrishna