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Bees will make the homes at the side of the Rocky way and will not abandon the house they have made, but stand up to men who come to destroy them and fight for the sake of their children.
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Speaker 0 00:00:08 Hey, Josh, what are you drinking? It smells really lovely. Like a mix of fresh camel miles, sweet Oregon and lemon.
Speaker 1 00:00:17 Hello, isn't it. I am drinking my symbiosis organic mountain tea. Would you like to try some nice to have some honey, everyone
Speaker 0 00:00:26 I'd love something. And in return, I will take you on a journey while right now I'm talking about an imaginary journey with plenty of poetry from ancient times with mythical heroes are cake gods and bees bees too. Yes. All under the Mediterranean light. Imagine those ancient mountains, the high altitudes, where the harsh weather conditions have contributed to the development of exceptional flora. And now listen to what the Greek poet Homer wrote in the eighth century.
Speaker 1 00:01:02 BC
Speaker 0 00:01:04 Bees will make the homes at the side of the Rocky way and will not abandon the house they have made, but stand up to men who come to destroy them and fight for the sake of their children.
Speaker 1 00:01:18 Pretty cool. Sounds like an action movie with mythological warriors,
Speaker 0 00:01:23 Et cetera, but bees are also shy and loved wild flowers. So back in the eighth century, BC, the renowned Roman poet, Horace compared himself to a bee, are you ready to hear his poem? Do I have a choice? I am like the humble bee painstakingly seeking to find the honey in the time that grows in lowly fragrant groves.
Speaker 1 00:01:50 Interesting. This idea of thoroughness. I like it. Okay.
Speaker 0 00:01:53 Okay. So let's play a game with more contemporary authors that I really like. So I will read out some of my favorite B theme poems. And you have to guess who the author is.
Speaker 1 00:02:04 I'm going to try, but I'm not too hot on, on poets.
Speaker 0 00:02:09 Okay. Don't worry. It's just the game. So for example, listen to how Keats are. I just gave the name away, wrote in the 17th century to bend with apples, the most cottage trees and fill all fruits with ripeness to the core, to swell the gourd and plump, the Hazel shells with a sweet kernel to set budding more and still more later flowers for the bees until they think warm days. We'll never see for summer has O'Brien deck clammy cells.
Speaker 1 00:02:44 That's fantastic, dude. Continue. Okay.
Speaker 0 00:02:47 So look at this description of bees at work and try and guess who wrote this, the wild bee that murmurs and hankers up and down that grapes, the full grown lady flower curves upon her with Amaris from legs, takes his will of her and holds himself tremulous and tight upon her until he is satisfied.
Speaker 1 00:03:10 This is marvelous. I let you have no idea. I'm sorry. I'm not your guy for this
Speaker 0 00:03:15 Walt Whitman. Try again with this poem that sings about the importance of bees for pollination to make a Prairie. It takes a Clover and one B one Clover and the bee and reverie. The reverie alone will do. If bees are there help Emily Dickinson. Okay. The next for the next one, I'll give you a clue. Okay. This author had taken up beekeeping in June and wrote excitedly to her mother in America. That's my clue. That's your clue. She moved to the UK. She wrote to her mother in America that summer describing her perception of the determination of a bee colony. Thanks for that. Ready?
Speaker 1 00:04:04 Thank you.
Speaker 0 00:04:06 The bees have got so far, 70 feet, high Russia, Poland and Germany, the mild Hills, the same old magenta fields, shrunk to a penny spun into a river. The river crossed. It seems bees have a notion of honor. A black intractable mind. Napoleon is pleased. He is pleased with everything. Oh, Europe. Oh, ton of honey. The bees are flying. They taste the spring.
Speaker 1 00:04:39 Yeah. Another, another beautiful one who
Speaker 0 00:04:43 It was Sylvia Plath. She was a really talented woman. Okay. Now listen to what Mark Twain wrote. You don't have to obviously guess this one books are very well, but books do not cover the whole domain of aesthetic human culture. Pride of profession is one of the bonus bones of existence. If not the bonus, without a doubt. It is so in the hive.
Speaker 1 00:05:06 Good stuff. That, that, one's a beautiful one. Mark Twain. Yes. Okay. Let me, let me try please. I go, I go. I'm ready. I'm ready? Yeah. You sure not going to give you any amazing clues.
Speaker 0 00:05:17 I'll guess I'm confident. I'll guess.
Speaker 1 00:05:20 I think you're. I think you're going to get this one. All right. The sudden dying population of bees is related to cell phones. The bees sync cell phones signal is transmitted. When the phones ring causing them to emit heavy buzzing noises, this frequency confuses the bees, making them fly. Erratically bees use the earth magnetic field as a compass, but their navigation is now compromised by cell phone radiation, making it impossible for them hoes to find the way back to the height.
Speaker 0 00:05:51 Actually, I don't know, but it's quite sad is Erica battle. Oh, I love Erica. She's amazing. Well, the truth is that the 20th century lost sight of the forest and the bees was a century of cement and plastic. So we should try to stop and look back at the importance and the poetry of the bees. So for the, I will read to you one more poem by Nicaraguan writer to bend area. A B is everywhere flying off the paper leaves, honey, on your lips. Beautiful. Isn't it just like.
