Sue Hubbell Quotes

• Beekeeping is farming for intellectuals.

  Sue Hubbell

  Farming

  Sue Hubbell (2017). “A Book of Bees”, p.43, Open Road Media

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• I have stopped sleeping inside. A house is too small, too confining. I want the whole world, and the stars too.

  Sue Hubbell

  Stars, Sleep, House

  Sue Hubbell (1999). “A Country Year: Living the Questions”, p.196, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I like pulling on a baggy bee suit, forgetting myself and getting as close to the bees' lives as they will let me, remembering in the process that there is more to life than the merely human.

  Sue Hubbell

  Suits, Bees, Remember

  Sue Hubbell (2017). “A Book of Bees”, p.125, Open Road Media

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• Then there is that other appeal, the stronger one, of spending, during certain parts of the year, a ten- or twelve- hour working day with bees, which are, when all is said and done, simply a bunch of bugs. But spending my days in close and intimate contact with creatures who are structured so differently from humans, and who get on with life in such a different way, is like being a visitor in an alien but ineffably engaging world.

  Sue Hubbell

  Years, Stronger, World

  Sue Hubbell (1999). “A Country Year: Living the Questions”, p.192, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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