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title: "4 Honey Quotes By Sue Hubbell"
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> [Strictly speaking, one never 'keeps' bees - one comes to terms with their wild nature.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sue-hubbell/strictly-speaking-one-never-keeps-bees-one-comes-to-terms-with-their/)

[Sue Hubbell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sue-hubbell/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/117/sue-hubbell-14236_bees_strictly-speaking-one-never-keeps-bees-o_814068.jpg)

> [“I like pulling on a baggy bee suit, forgetting myself and getting as close to the bees' lives as they will let…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sue-hubbell/i-like-pulling-on-a-baggy-bee-suit-forgetting-myself-and-getting-as/)

[Sue Hubbell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sue-hubbell/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a57/sue-hubbell-14236_beekeeping_i-like-pulling-on-a-baggy-bee-suit-forge_1846635.jpg)

> [My bees cover one thousand square miles of land that I do not own in their foraging flights, flying from flower to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sue-hubbell/my-bees-cover-one-thousand-square-miles-of-land-that-i-do-not-own-in/)

[Sue Hubbell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sue-hubbell/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/498/sue-hubbell-14236_bees_my-bees-cover-one-thousand-square-miles_3044467.jpg)

> [Beekeeping is farming for intellectuals.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sue-hubbell/beekeeping-is-farming-for-intellectuals/)

[Sue Hubbell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sue-hubbell/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f2a/sue-hubbell-14236_beekeeping_beekeeping-is-farming-for-intellectuals_3079183.jpg)

## Other authors on Honey

## More by Sue Hubbell

> [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sue-hubbell/greer-is-missouri-s-second-largest-spring-it-is-a-place-of-pounding/)

[Sue Hubbell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sue-hubbell/)

> [Sometimes, I wonder where we older women fit into the social scheme of things once nest-building has lost its charm.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sue-hubbell/sometimes-i-wonder-where-we-older-women-fit-into-the-social-scheme-of/)

[Sue Hubbell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sue-hubbell/)

> [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sue-hubbell/i-spend-a-lot-of-time-sizing-up-a-tree-before-i-fell-it-once-it-s/)

[Sue Hubbell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sue-hubbell/our-family-was-like-no-one-else-s-my-schoolfriends-had-fathers-and/)

[Sue Hubbell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sue-hubbell/)

> [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,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sue-hubbell/you-have-to-take-springtime-on-its-own-terms-in-the-ozarks-there-is/)

[Sue Hubbell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sue-hubbell/)

> [We humans are a minority of giants stumbling around in a world of little things.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sue-hubbell/we-humans-are-a-minority-of-giants-stumbling-around-in-a-world-of/)

[Sue Hubbell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sue-hubbell/)

> [I have stopped sleeping inside. A house is too small, too confining. I want the whole world, and the stars too.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sue-hubbell/i-have-stopped-sleeping-inside-a-house-is-too-small-too-confining-i/)

[Sue Hubbell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sue-hubbell/)

> [Precision, directness, and quickness are what human beings are good at. What we have never been good at - in our past, at least…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sue-hubbell/precision-directness-and-quickness-are-what-human-beings-are-good-at/)

[Sue Hubbell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sue-hubbell/)

> [“...when I offered to either stay and help or go bake a pie, it was the pie that was most needed. It took six…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sue-hubbell/when-i-offered-to-either-stay-and-help-or-go-bake-a-pie-it-was-the/)

[Sue Hubbell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sue-hubbell/)

> [Strictly speaking, one never 'keeps' bees - one comes to terms with their wild nature.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sue-hubbell/strictly-speaking-one-never-keeps-bees-one-comes-to-terms-with-their/)

[Sue Hubbell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sue-hubbell/)

> [It gets cold here in the Ozarks in the winter. There are often warm winter days, but there are also weeks when the temperature…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sue-hubbell/it-gets-cold-here-in-the-ozarks-in-the-winter-there-are-often-warm/)

[Sue Hubbell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sue-hubbell/)

> [Maine is a movable music festival in the summertime.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sue-hubbell/maine-is-a-movable-music-festival-in-the-summertime/)

[Sue Hubbell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sue-hubbell/)

> [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.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sue-hubbell/great-wass-island-preserve-is-a-1-579-acre-nature-conservancy-jewel-a/)

[Sue Hubbell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sue-hubbell/)

> [“Got me as fussed as a fart in a mitten.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sue-hubbell/got-me-as-fussed-as-a-fart-in-a-mitten/)

[Sue Hubbell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sue-hubbell/)

> [Crickets are immaculately clean, harmless animals.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sue-hubbell/crickets-are-immaculately-clean-harmless-animals/)

[Sue Hubbell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sue-hubbell/)

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