COMMUNITY OF BEES
In Maeterlick’s treatise on the “Life of the Bee,” he remarks on the need of the honeybee for community: “She will dive for an instant into the sea that is filled with pearls, but under pain of death it behoves her at regular intervals to return and breathe the crowd as the swimmer must return and breathe the air. Isolate her, and however abundant the food or favorable the temperature, she will expire in a few days not of hunger or cold, but of loneliness.” As someone commented on this: “This is a way of saying you cannot keep a bee; you can only keep bees. Nor can you keep a Christian; you can only keep Christians.”
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