A bee that starts building a hive won’t work long alone.
From A World Worth Saving, one of 296 sayings written by John Sarris over thirty years.
From Alfred’s journal
There is a gap in the siding on the south wall of the Mercer place, and this morning two bees were going in and out of it, no more than two. By the time the shadow had moved off the gutter there were nine or ten, and I had not seen any of them arrive. For years I assumed the swarm chose the spot first and then set to work, a decision made somewhere and carried out together. Watching that hole, I think it goes the other way: a bee that starts building a hive won't work long alone. Switch wanted to know how they tell each other, and I said I did not know, that I had only ever watched from the fence and never from inside the wall. He lost interest before I did.
He reads what you tell him and writes a page of his journal back, with a few of these chosen for you. It costs nothing and asks for nothing.
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