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" I married a university professor, raised a son, and worked as an academic librarian. My husband and I moved to the Ozarks, bought a farm, and started a commercial beekeeping business. And divorced. "

Sue Hubbell

Farm

Business

Husband

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Found

" 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. "

" For a long, long time, nearly 40 years, I never had any bees. I can't think why. "

" Beekeeping is farming for intellectuals. "

Sue Hubbell

Intellectuals

Farming

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

" I started collecting crickets to study them. Now I expect they will be my companions for many years to come. "

" Bees are easier to keep than a dog or a cat. They are more interesting than gerbils. They can be kept anywhere. "

Sue Hubbell

Than

Keep

" I've never been much for becoming a member of a group. "

" 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, full of promise, promise that is sometimes broken. It is also bawdy, irrepressible, excessive, fecund, willful. "

" Nothing gives a person more confidence... than to be zipped snugly inside a bee suit. "

" I am an early riser. "

Sue Hubbell

Early

I Am

" I know a number of coastal trails in downeast Maine, all of them interesting. "

" 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. "

" Crickets are immaculately clean, harmless animals. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Everyone should have two or three hives of bees. "

" Maine is a movable music festival in the summertime. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Our human calendars take little notice of such dates, but nighthawk migrations tell of shortening days and a season's end. "

" 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. "

Sue Hubbell

Lonely

World

" All chain saws are formidable and dangerous. "

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