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I like pulling on a baggy bee suit, forgetting myself and getting as close to the bees' lives as they will let me, remembering in the process that there is more to life than the merely human.

Sue Hubbell

No such thing as objective writing,... every inscription, every traveler's tale, every news account, every piece of technical writing, tells more about the author and his time than it does about the ostensible subject.

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

I was writing for myself, and what I put on paper over the next couple of years was unlike anything I had written before. I traced the natural history of my hilltop from one springtime to the next, discovering by the second spring that I was in a new place and understanding the value of where I was.

Sue Hubbell

Then there is that other appeal, the stronger one, of spending, during certain parts of the year, a ten- or twelve- hour working day with bees, which are, when all is said and done, simply a bunch of bugs. But spending my days in close and intimate contact with creatures who are structured so differently from humans, and who get on with life in such a different way, is like being a visitor in an alien but ineffably engaging world.

Sue Hubbell

Sue Hubbell

Sue Hubbell

Born: 1935

Died: October 13, 2018 (aged 83)

Bio: Sue Hubbell was an American author. Her books A Country Year and A Book of Bees were selected by the New York Times Book Review as Notable Books of the Year. She has also written for The New Yorker, the St.

Known for:

A Country Year (1986)
Book of Bees (1988)
Waiting for Aphrodite (1999)
Broadsides from the other orders (1993)
Shrinking the Cat (2001)

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