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“This simple fact explains an awful lot about the biology and conservation of bumblebees. They have to eat almost continually to keep warm; a bumblebee with a full stomach is only ever about forty minutes from starvation. If a bumblebee runs out of energy, she cannot fly, and if she cannot fly, she cannot get to flowers to get more food, so she is doomed”
― Dave Goulson, A Sting in the Tale: My Adventures with Bumblebees

“As far as I am concerned, poetry is a statement concerning the human condition, composed in verse.”
― N. Scott Momaday

“Soon. She knew. Soon he would come visiting. Incarnadine and sweet and sad and broken. Just like her.”
― Patrick Rothfuss, The Slow Regard of Silent Things

“Since the grasses are being parasitised, they grow less, leaving more room for other flowering plants. Pywell demonstrated that sowing rattle seed into an English meadow significantly boosted the diversity of flowers present by suppressing growth of grasses.”
― Dave Goulson, A Sting in the Tale: My Adventures with Bumblebees