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

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

Sue Hubbell
Stars, Sleep, House
Sue Hubbell (1999). “A Country Year: Living the Questions”, p.196, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Beekeeping is farming for intellectuals.

Sue Hubbell
Farming
Sue Hubbell (2017). “A Book of Bees”, p.43, Open Road Media

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.

Sue Hubbell
Suits, Bees, Remember
Sue Hubbell (2017). “A Book of Bees”, p.125, Open Road Media

Then there is that other appeal, the stronger one, of spending, during certain parts of the year, a ten- or twelve- hour working day with bees, which are, when all is said and done, simply a bunch of bugs. But spending my days in close and intimate contact with creatures who are structured so differently from humans, and who get on with life in such a different way, is like being a visitor in an alien but ineffably engaging world.

Sue Hubbell
Years, Stronger, World
Sue Hubbell (1999). “A Country Year: Living the Questions”, p.192, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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