no matter to what extent their own plans have been thwarted, they will none the less do what they know to be their profound and primitive duty. and as to what this duty may be they are never in doubt.

it is written in their tongue, in their mouth, over every organ of their body, that they are in this world to make honey, as it is written in our eyes, our ears, our nerves, in every lobe of our brain.

Maurice Maeterlinck,
The Children's Life of Bees.