Maurice Maeterlinck Quote

No living creature, not even man, has achieved, in the centre of his sphere, what the bee has achieved in her own: and were some one from another world to descend and ask of the earth the most perfect creation of the logic of life, we should needs have to offer the humble comb of honey.


Thoughts from Maeterlinck (ed. 1903)


No living creature, not even man, has achieved, in the centre of his sphere, what the bee has achieved in her own: and were some one from another...

No living creature, not even man, has achieved, in the centre of his sphere, what the bee has achieved in her own: and were some one from another...

No living creature, not even man, has achieved, in the centre of his sphere, what the bee has achieved in her own: and were some one from another...

No living creature, not even man, has achieved, in the centre of his sphere, what the bee has achieved in her own: and were some one from another...