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Nothing gives a person more confidence... than to be zipped snugly inside a bee suit.

Every spring, I begin cutting my firewood for the upcoming winter. It should be cut months ahead of time so it will dry and cure.

Sue Hubbell

We humans are a minority of giants stumbling around in a world of little things.

Sue Hubbell

In the wild, those traits that are adaptive for survival and reproductive advantage are brought out through natural selection. So cats that were fierce, furtive hunters, alert to the snapping of every twig, with coats that gave them good camouflage, would have been favored by evolution.

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You have to take springtime on its own terms in the Ozarks: there is no other way. It can't be predicted. It is unsteady, full of promise, promise that is sometimes broken. It is also bawdy, irrepressible, excessive, fecund, willful.

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I spend a lot of time sizing up a tree before I fell it. Once it's down, I clear away the brush around the tree before I start cutting it into lengths so I won't trip and lose my balance with the chain saw running.

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Our human calendars take little notice of such dates, but nighthawk migrations tell of shortening days and a season's end.

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Strictly speaking, one never 'keeps' bees - one comes to terms with their wild nature.

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Bees are easier to keep than a dog or a cat. They are more interesting than gerbils. They can be kept anywhere.

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I am an early riser.

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It wasn't that there weren't menfolk in my grandmother's stories. There were lots of them but they died young or were drifters and dreamers who disappeared or turned to drink or succumbed to melancholia or slow mortal diseases. The women, on the other hand, lived a long time and were full of spit and vinegar until the end.

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Fiddling with the genetic identities of domesticated plants and animals ever since we had become human. We are the fiddlingest animal the world has ever seen.

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For a long, long time, nearly 40 years, I never had any bees. I can't think why.

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Beekeeping is farming for intellectuals.

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Nothing gives a person more confidence... than to be zipped snugly inside a bee suit.

Sue Hubbell

A rule about portages: the longer and harder they are, the fewer people will make them.

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Maine is a movable music festival in the summertime.

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Healthy camel crickets spend a lot of their waking hours grooming, so I have learned to recognize the ones that will soon die because they walk about encrusted with sand and bits of litter, having lost all interest in keeping clean.

Sue Hubbell