“The bee is domesticated but not tamed.”

“Can we be sure that they are incapable of the feelings or sentiments that are believed to place them on a lower scale than humans? Do we deny sensitivity to all of the so-called lower orders to blunt, protect, and, ultimately, deny our own? We will see that bees can grieve over teh loss of a queen, sound war cries or hum with contentment; they can be angry, docile, ferocious, playful, aggressive, appear happy, or utter pitiful sounds of distress. are these not emotions akin to ours, merely expressed differently?”

“How little we really know about the life all around us. Would we be so cavalier and ruthless with it if we understood it better?”

“Their tameness is shocking to me.”

“The busy bee has no time for sorrow.”

“Where the bee sucks, there suck IIn the cow-slip's bell i lieThere I couch when owls do cry”

“For I am he am born to tame you, Kate; and bring you from a wild Kate to a Kate conformable as other household Kates.”