Sue Hubbell Quotes

#1. 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.

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

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#3. The only time I ever believed that I knew all there was to know about beekeeping was the first year I was keeping them. Every year since I've known less and less and have accepted the humbling truth that bees know more about making honey than I do.

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#4. [N]o such thing as objective writing, ... every inscription, every traveler's tale, every news account, every piece of technical writing, tells more about the author and his time than it does about the ostensible subject.

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#5. Beekeeping is farming for intellectuals.

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#6. Got me as fussed as a fart in a mitten.

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#7. Lepidopterists give the noun a gerund's push toward the verb, and say that butterflies are nectaring ...

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