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. Sue Hubbell Read Quote
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. Sue Hubbell Read Quote
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 Read Quote
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 Read Quote
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. Sue Hubbell Read Quote
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 Read Quote
Nothing gives a person more confidence… than to be zipped snugly inside a bee suit. Sue Hubbell Read Quote
We humans are a minority of giants stumbling around in a world of little things. Sue Hubbell Read Quote
