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" All chain saws are formidable and dangerous. "
Sue Hubbell
Dangerous
Formidable
Chain
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" My crickets found me. "
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Found
" It wasn't that there weren't menfolk in my grandmother's stories. There were lots of them but they died young or were drifters and dreamers who disappeared or turned to drink or succumbed to melancholia or slow mortal diseases. The women, on the other hand, lived a long time and were full of spit and vinegar until the end. "
Sue Hubbell
Long Time
Women
End
" In the wild, those traits that are adaptive for survival and reproductive advantage are brought out through natural selection. So cats that were fierce, furtive hunters, alert to the snapping of every twig, with coats that gave them good camouflage, would have been favored by evolution. "
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Evolution
Good
Survival
" I know a number of coastal trails in downeast Maine, all of them interesting. "
Sue Hubbell
Know
Them
Number
" My maternal grandmother, Annie Sparks, lived with our family during the while I was growing up. When I came home from school, after having made a detour to the kitchen to pour a glass of milk and fix a thick peanut butter sandwich on easy-to-tear white bread, I would go up to her sitting room. "
Sue Hubbell
School
Family
Growing Up
" A rule about portages: the longer and harder they are, the fewer people will make them. "
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Rule
Them
People
" 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 splendor. "
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Splendor
Rock
Place
" 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
Rent
Plants
Own
" We humans are a minority of giants stumbling around in a world of little things. "
Sue Hubbell
Little Things
Things
Minority
" Bees are easier to keep than a dog or a cat. They are more interesting than gerbils. They can be kept anywhere. "
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Than
More
Keep
" I am an early riser. "
Sue Hubbell
Early
I Am
Am
" I started collecting crickets to study them. Now I expect they will be my companions for many years to come. "
Sue Hubbell
Study
Started
Will
" I've never been much for becoming a member of a group. "
Sue Hubbell
Becoming
Been
Group
" I've lived all over the country - Michigan, California, Texas, New Jersey, Rhode Island and, now, Maine - but I never understood springtime until I spent 25 years farming in the Ozarks. "
Sue Hubbell
California
Texas
Now
" 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 tree before I start cutting it into lengths so I won't trip and lose my balance with the chain saw running. "
Sue Hubbell
Tree
Balance
Down
" Nothing gives a person more confidence... than to be zipped snugly inside a bee suit. "
Sue Hubbell
Nothing
Person
Confidence
" For a long, long time, nearly 40 years, I never had any bees. I can't think why. "
Sue Hubbell
Think
Long
Long Time
" Strictly speaking, one never 'keeps' bees - one comes to terms with their wild nature. "
Sue Hubbell
Wild
Nature
Never
" 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. Tourism is not serious business in those parts - boat building and fishing are - and there are no signs telling how to get to Great Wass. But I know. "
Sue Hubbell
Business
Great
Fishing
" It gets cold here in the Ozarks in the winter. There are often warm winter days, but there are also weeks when the temperature never climbs above freezing. "
Sue Hubbell
Here
Winter
Warm
" 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
Human
Animal
Animals
" I am beekeeper, but I am also a writer, and some years ago, I sat down at a typewriter to experiment with words, to try to tease out of the amorphous, chaotic and wordless part of myself the reason why I was staying on this hilltop in the Ozarks after my first husband, with whom I had started a beekeeping business, and I had divorced. "
Sue Hubbell
Words
Husband
I Am
" Otherness is what I have always liked about bugs. "
Sue Hubbell
Liked
Always
About
" We live in a world in which there are many live things other than human beings, and many of these things can seem beautiful and amusing and interesting to us if they can catch our attention and if we can step back from our crabbed and limiting and lonely anthropocentricity to consider them. "
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Lonely
Us
World
" Healthy camel crickets spend a lot of their waking hours grooming, so I have learned to recognize the ones that will soon die because they walk about encrusted with sand and bits of litter, having lost all interest in keeping clean. "
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Die
Lost
Sand
" The Ozarks are old and worn mountains from the geological past. "
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Mountains
Geological
Worn
" Everyone should have two or three hives of bees. "
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Bees
Three
Should
" Precision, directness, and quickness are what human beings are good at. What we have never been good at - in our past, at least - is figuring out the impact, the consequences, of what our skills have allowed us to do. "
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Consequences
Skills
Past
" Spring starts in January in the Ozarks, lurches on in a complicated way, with spurts and setbacks, until May. Then, early in May, there is a cold spell known as blackberry winter because it comes when blackberries bloom. It is a worrisome week for anyone who farms. "
Sue Hubbell
Winter
Spring
Setbacks
" Every spring, I begin cutting my firewood for the upcoming winter. It should be cut months ahead of time so it will dry and cure. "
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Ahead
Will
Spring