Sue Hubbell Quotes

United States, Author
January 28, 1935 – October, 13, 2018.

Suzanne Hubbell was an American author. Her books A Country Year and A Book of Bees were selected by The New York Times Book Review as Notable Books of the Year. She also wrote for The New Yorker, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Smithsonian and Time, and was a frequent contributor to the "Hers" column of The New York Times.

My bees cover one thousand square miles of land that I do not own in their foraging flights, flying from flower to flower for which I pay no rent, stealing nectar but pollinating plants in return.

Sue Hubbell
- Flower
- Bees
- Nectar
Otherness is what I have always liked about bugs.

Sue Hubbell
- Liked
- Bugs
- Otherness

Beekeeping is farming for intellectuals.

Sue Hubbell
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.

Sue Hubbell
All chain saws are formidable and dangerous.

Sue Hubbell
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
- Women
- Family
- Doers
Everyone should have two or three hives of bees.

Sue Hubbell
- Everyone
- Bees
- Hives
I have stopped sleeping inside. A house is too small, too confining. I want the whole world, and the stars too.

Sue Hubbell
- World
- Want
- Stars

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

Sue Hubbell
- Make
- Rule
- Longer
We humans are a minority of giants stumbling around in a world of little things.

Sue Hubbell
- World
- Humans
- Minority