What the Bee Knows: Reflections on Myth, Symbol, and Story - P. L. Travers

The Sphinx, the Pyramids, the stone temples are, all of them, ultimately, as flimsy as London Bridge; our cities but tents set up in the cosmos. We pass. But what the bee knows, the wisdom that sustains our passing life--however much we deny or ignore it--that for ever remains. --P. L. Travers