Sue Hubbell Quotes

Sue Hubbell
American Author
Born: 1935
Bees Spring Time Will Women World
Related authors: F. Scott Fitzgerald Frederick Douglass Helen Keller Henry David Thoreau Joyce Meyer Mark Twain Og Mandino Zig Ziglar
Beekeeping is farming for intellectuals. Sue Hubbell
Intellectuals Farming
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. Sue Hubbell
Good Survival Natural Cats Every Adaptive Gave Wild Those Favored Evolution Out Hunters Would Brought Through Selection Advantage Were Been Camouflage Traits Reproductive Fierce Them Natural Selection Coats Twig Alert
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
Walk Will Healthy Lost Spend Bits Recognize About Having Clean Soon Hours Learned Because Camel Lot Waking Die Interest Litter Sand Grooming Keeping
Bees are easier to keep than a dog or a cat. They are more interesting than gerbils. They can be kept anywhere. Sue Hubbell
Dog Easier More Cat Bees Than Anywhere Interesting Keep Kept
Sometimes, I wonder where we older women fit into the social scheme of things once nest-building has lost its charm. Sue Hubbell
Women Sometimes Lost Older Once Charm Scheme Fit Wonder Where Social Older Women Things
Great Wass Island Preserve is a 1,579-acre Nature Conservancy jewel, a place of spectacular botanical interest, and Jonesport is situated on a postcard-pretty harbor. Tourism is not serious business in those parts - boat building and fishing are - and there are no signs telling how to get to Great Wass. But I know. Sue Hubbell
Great Nature Business Signs Building Those Telling Tourism Know Parts Island How Fishing Get Situated Place Interest Boat Harbor Serious Spectacular Jewel Preserve
A rule about portages: the longer and harder they are, the fewer people will make them. Sue Hubbell
People Will Rule About Longer Make Fewer Them Harder
Our family was like no one else's. My schoolfriends had fathers and grandfathers and uncles who did things, but in my family, women had been the doers. Sue Hubbell
Family Women Else Fathers Our Uncles Had No-One Like Doers Been Did Grandfathers Who Things
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. Sue Hubbell
Time Women Dreamers Slow Long Long Time Young Other Drink Spit Disappeared Mortal Until Were Hand Lots End Diseases Died Stories Them Turned Grandmother Full Succumbed Who Lived Vinegar
I married a university professor, raised a son, and worked as an academic librarian. My husband and I moved to the Ozarks, bought a farm, and started a commercial beekeeping business. And divorced. Sue Hubbell
Business Son Husband Farm Librarian Married Bought Divorced Academic Commercial Moved Worked Professor Started Raised University
Otherness is what I have always liked about bugs. Sue Hubbell
About Liked Bugs Always
Strictly speaking, one never 'keeps' bees - one comes to terms with their wild nature. Sue Hubbell
Nature Wild Strictly Strictly Speaking Never Terms Bees Speaking Keeps
Greer is Missouri's second-largest spring. It is a place of pounding, frothing waters and of greeny-cool moss-covered rock, a place of fern and cliffy splendor. Sue Hubbell
Spring Waters Pounding Splendor Missouri Rock Place
The Ozarks are old and worn mountains from the geological past. Sue Hubbell
Old Past Mountains Worn Geological
I've never been much for becoming a member of a group. Sue Hubbell
Group Member Never Becoming Been Much
My maternal grandmother, Annie Sparks, lived with our family during the while I was growing up. When I came home from school, after having made a detour to the kitchen to pour a glass of milk and fix a thick peanut butter sandwich on easy-to-tear white bread, I would go up to her sitting room. Sue Hubbell
Home Family School Made Pour White Our Would Having Kitchen Detour Glass Annie Came Go Maternal Up Fix Sitting Bread After While Room Sandwich Grandmother Sparks Growing Lived Growing Up Thick Milk Her Butter Peanut Peanut Butter
All chain saws are formidable and dangerous. Sue Hubbell
Dangerous Formidable Chain
Everyone should have two or three hives of bees. Sue Hubbell
Three Everyone Bees Should Two
I am an early riser. Sue Hubbell
Am Early
Precision, directness, and quickness are what human beings are good at. What we have never been good at - in our past, at least - is figuring out the impact, the consequences, of what our skills have allowed us to do. Sue Hubbell
Good Past Consequences Our Out Impact Never Allowed Least Been Quickness Precision Human Human Beings Us Skills Figuring Beings
For a long, long time, nearly 40 years, I never had any bees. I can't think why. Sue Hubbell
Time Long Long Time Think Never Had Years Bees Any Why Nearly

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