Locusts And Wild Honey : Kessinger Publishing : 9781162671543 : 1162671548 : 10 Sep 2010 : 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 a