Sue Hubbell Quotes

Beekeeping is farming for intellectuals.

What is forever,' I asked. . . . Forever, it appeared, was a word made up by adults so they would not have to think about endings. . . . A friend who is an attorney told me not that long ago that a recent national survey of legal documents shows that 'forever' lasts about thirty years on average. But, if forever can mean until governments fall or lose interest, what does 700 million years mean when the whole history of governments, the very idea of governments, is subsumed into inconsequence by that span of time?

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

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.

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