Education Quote by Gene Robinson

Bees, in Robinson's telling, are not little GPS units; they're creatures of place, stitched into their world by recognizable markers. The line works because it starts as a calm, almost documentary observation and then pivots into a blunt moral: dislocation breaks orientation. "Home range" is clinical language, but it quietly widens the frame. It isn't just a hive; it's any lived territory where meaning is built from repeated cues - streets, routines, faces, even pews. Move someone inside what should still feel like "home", and you can still trigger panic, not because they're fragile, but because the map in their head no longer matches the ground.

Coming from a clergyman, the subtext reads like pastoral counsel disguised as natural history. Robinson isn't sermonizing about sin or virtue; he's talking about stability, memory, and the spiritual cost of constant rearrangement. Churches know this intimately: congregations relocate, sanctuaries get renovated, neighborhoods gentrify, members age into new roles. The institution may insist continuity - same faith, same community - while the human experience is rupture. Bees become a permission slip to admit confusion without shame.

There's also an implicit critique of managerial thinking. Modern life loves "within range" logic: as long as you're still in the same city, same job band, same social circle, you should adapt. Robinson points out the missing variable: landmarks. People don't live in abstractions; they live by reference points. When those vanish or get shuffled, even faithful navigators start circling.