Locusts And Wild Honey

Locusts and Wild Honey is a collection of essays by John Burroughs, a naturalist and writer who lived in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. The book features essays on a variety of topics related to nature, including observations of animals, plants, and landscapes, as well as reflections on the human experience in relation to the natural world. Burroughs' writing is known for its poetic and lyrical style, and his descriptions of the natural world are vivid and evocative. The book is considered a classic of American nature writing, and has been widely read and admired for over a century.The notion has always very generally prevailed that the queen of the bees is an absolute ruler, and issues her royal orders to willing subjects. Hence Napoleon the First sprinkled the symbolic bees over the imperial mantle that bore the arms of his dynasty; and in the country of the Pharaohs the bee was used as the emblem of a people sweetly submissive to the orders of its king. But the fact is, a swarm of bees is an absolute democracy, and kings and despots can find no warrant in their example. The power and authority are entirely vested in the great mass, the workers.This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the old original and may contain some imperfections such as library marks and notations. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions, that are true to their original work.