Bees Hive: Vase created by bees!

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Vase created by bees!

This vase was made by 40,000 bees over the course of one week. Studio Libertiny constructed a vase-shaped hive that the bees then colonized, building a hexagonal comb to encompass the existing form. And in the usual dry yet oh-so-clever Dutch manner, Studio Libertiny calls this process “slow prototyping,” a more time...

Read more: STUDIO LIBERTINY’S VASE MADE BY BEES | Inhabitat - Sustainable Design Innovation, Eco Architecture, Green Building

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BEE QUOTES

To make a prairie it takes a clover and one bee, One clover, and a bee, And revery. The revery alone will do, If bees are few.

Emily Dickinson

We ought to do good to others as simply as a horse runs, or a bee makes honey, or a vine bears grapes season after season without thinking of the grapes it has borne.

Marcus Aurelius

Aerodynamically, the bumble bee shouldn't be able to fly, but the bumble bee doesn't know it so it goes on flying anyway.
Mary Kay Ash

Even bees, the little alms-men of spring bowers, know there is richest juice in poison-flowers.
John Keats

Bees work for man, and yet they never bruise

Their Master's flower, but leave it having done,

As fair as ever and as fit to use;

So both the flower doth stay and honey run.

George Herbert - The Church

MORE QUOTES ABOUT BEES

"For so work the honey bees, creatures that by a rule in nature teach the act of order to a peopled kingdom."William Shakespeare

“Bees have a secret life we don’t know about.” Sue Monk Kidd in her book 'The Secret Life of Bees.'

“The careful insect 'midst his works I view, Now from the flowers exhaust the fragrant dew, With golden treasures load his little thighs, And steer his distant journey through the skies.” John Gay.

"O bees, sweet bees!" I said; "that nearest field Is shining white with fragrant immortelles Fly swiftly there and drain those honey wells." Helen Hunt Jackson in My Bees.

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Vase created by bees!

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