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

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

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

The dwelling places of Europe have an air of inheritance, or cumulative possession - a hive occupied by generations of bees.

I had a free-range childhood. We lived in town but with a cow, chooks, bees, and multiple veggie gardens so we could live self-sufficiently.

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

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.

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

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.

I grew up in Lincolnshire, trying to get the daughters of farmers and policemen to like me. It didn't go well until I got to college where, suddenly, there were different sorts of humans.