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…

— Sue Hubbell

Sometimes, I wonder where we older women fit into the social scheme of things once nest-building has lost its charm.

— 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…

— 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,…

— 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…

— Sue Hubbell

We humans are a minority of giants stumbling around in a world of little things.

— Sue Hubbell

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

— Sue Hubbell

Precision, directness, and quickness are what human beings are good at. What we have never been good at - in our past,…

— Sue Hubbell

“...when I offered to either stay and help or go bake a pie, it was the pie that was most needed. It…

— Sue Hubbell

Strictly speaking, one never 'keeps' bees - one comes to terms with their wild nature.

— Sue Hubbell

It gets cold here in the Ozarks in the winter. There are often warm winter days, but there are also weeks when…

— Sue Hubbell

Maine is a movable music festival in the summertime.

— 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…

— Sue Hubbell

“Got me as fussed as a fart in a mitten.”

— Sue Hubbell

Crickets are immaculately clean, harmless animals.

— Sue Hubbell

All chain saws are formidable and dangerous.

— Sue Hubbell

Otherness is what I have always liked about bugs.

— Sue Hubbell

Every spring, I begin cutting my firewood for the upcoming winter. It should be cut months ahead of time so it will…

— Sue Hubbell

“I like pulling on a baggy bee suit, forgetting myself and getting as close to the bees' lives as they will let…

— Sue Hubbell

I am beekeeper, but I am also a writer, and some years ago, I sat down at a typewriter to experiment with…

— Sue Hubbell

We live in a world in which there are many live things other than human beings, and many of these things can…

— Sue Hubbell

My maternal grandmother, Annie Sparks, lived with our family during the while I was growing up. When I came home from school,…

— Sue Hubbell

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

— Sue Hubbell

Everyone should have two or three hives of bees.

— Sue Hubbell

The Ozarks are old and worn mountains from the geological past.

— Sue Hubbell