"She was stretched on her back beneath the pear tree soaking in the alto chant of the visiting bees, the gold of the sun and the panting breath of the breeze when the inaudible voice of it all came to her. She saw a dust-bearing bee sink into the sanctum of a bloom; the thousand sister-calyxes arch to meet the love embrace and the ecstatic shiver of the tree from root to tiniest branch creaming in every blossom and frothing with delight."

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About Zora Neale Hurston

Zora Neale Hurston was an American novelist, folklorist, and anthropologist associated with the Harlem Renaissance. She is best known for the novel Their Eyes Were Watching God.

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