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> # If I plant a honeycomb outside my house, then it will grow up into a beehive.

[A. A. Milne](https://quotesby.net/A.-A.-Milne)\#17

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## About this quote

What does it mean?A character mistakenly believes a honeycomb can grow into a beehive like a plant.In plain termsSomeone wrongly thinks food can grow into a hive.What can you take from it?Misunderstandings arise from applying wrong logic to nature.

### Where it applies

- child education
- creative writing
- storytelling

### Putting it to work

- teach nature
- encourage curiosity

### Questions to consider

- What do you misunderstand?
- How do you learn?

### Another view

It ignores biological realities in favor of whimsy.

## More from A. A. Milne

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2. > So they went off together. But wherever they go, and whatever happens to them on the way, in that enchanted place on the top of the forest a little boy and his…

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3. > 'I'm not going to do nothing anymore.' 'Never again?' 'Well, not so much. They don't let you.'

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