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

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

" All chain saws are formidable and dangerous. "

" 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. "

" Otherness is what I have always liked about bugs. "

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Crickets are immaculately clean, harmless animals. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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 been the doers. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" Beekeeping is farming for intellectuals. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" I am an early riser. "

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

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

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

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