Bill Leitzinger

“Things may come to those who wait, but only the things left by those who hustle.”
― Abraham Lincoln

“The whole point of adventure is that it is unplanned; a leap in the dark, verging on the unfortunate, offering glimpses of danger; and what separates adventure from disaster is that you live to tell the tale.”
― Paul Theroux, Figures In A Landscape: People and Places

“Honeybees are the most important pollinators in most regions of the world where flowering plants exist, but are by no means the only insects that play this role. Flies, butterflies, beetles and other hymenopterans related to bees, such as solitary bees, wasps, bumblebees, and even ants can pollinate plants. Very few flowers are dependent on a single insect species, although no other pollinators are as effective as are honeybees. In all, 80% of flowering plants worldwide are pollinated by insects, and of these about 85% by honeybees. As many as 90% of fruit tree flowers are dependent on honeybees. The list of flowering plants pollinated by honeybees includes about 170,000 species. The number of flowering plant species that are dependent on honeybees, and without which they would fare badly, is estimated to be about 40,000.”
― Jürgen Tautz, The Buzz about Bees: Biology of a Superorganism

“We may not be cows or buffalo, but we ruminate just the same on our thoughts—unfortunately, primarily negative thoughts. We eat them, and then we bring them up to chew again and again, like a cow chewing its cud.”
― Thich Nhat Hanh, Silence: The Power of Quiet in a World Full of Noise