Avignon

“And silence. She liked the silence most of all. The silence in which the body, senses, the instincts, are more alert, more powerful, more sensitized, live a more richly perfumed and intoxication life, instead of transmuting into thoughts, words, into exquisite abstractions, mathematics of emotion in place of violent impact, the volcanic eruptions of fever, lust and delight.”
― Anaïs Nin

Placement

“All who have achieved excellence in art possess one thing in common; that is, a mind to be one with nature, throughout the seasons.”
― Matsuo Bashō

Bee Removal

“Sitting quietly, doing nothing, Spring comes, and the grass grows, by itself.”
― Matsuo Bashō

Broken

“All the knowledge I possess everyone else can acquire, but my heart is all my own.”
― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Touch

“Very simply, for the mind, absence can be a catalyst for presence.”
― Siri Hustvedt,

Wild Honey

“There is nothing in the world that is not mysterious, but the mystery is more evident in certain things than in others: in the sea, in the eyes of the elders, in the color yellow, and in music.”
— Jorge Luis Borges

The Bee Master

“I began to see that thinking of him as a beekeeper was actually quite the wrong expression of this man.  He did far more than simply keep bees; somehow, I felt that he was of them.  Certainly the bees knew and respected him.  He was, I was to learn, a Bee Master—an artist working with living form.”  –Simon Buxton

Valetta

 

“Il viendra le jour où chaque bout de terre sur la colline Sciberras vaudra son poids en or.”

The Bee Hunters

"One does not divine the ways of nature, it lays out methods that confound our science, and it is only by studying it carefully that we may succeed in unveiling some of its mysteries."–Francis Huber