Sue Hubbell Quotes

The bee collects honey from flowers in such a way as to do the least damage or destruction to them, and he leaves them whole, undamaged and fresh, just as he found them.

It's wonderful to me that bees have this simple, age-old thing going on.

No beehive. Beehives - we sort of put them - well, we revive them sometimes.

All I knew about bees when I started to write 'The Secret Life of Bees' was that they can live in a wall of your house, and that they make this incredible thing that I loved.

When the flower blossoms, the bee will come.

When you hear buzz around the beehive, you know they're making honey in there.

A bee is never as busy as it seems; it's just that it can't buzz any slower.

I don't mind bees and think we are all the better for having them around. I like the taste of honey.

I have a huge belief in the importance of bees, not just for their honey, which is a healing and delicious food, but the necessity of bee colonies that are vital to the health of the planet.

Everyone should have two or three hives of bees.

My elder son and his wife keep bees, and my younger son has bees, too.

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

How to extract its honey from the flower of the world. That is my everyday business. I am as busy as a bee about it. I ramble over fields on that errand and am never so happy as when I feel myself heavy with honey and wax. I am like a bee searching the livelong day for the sweets of nature.

Every bees hony is sweet.

If you want to gather honey, don't kick over the beehive.

When the flower blooms, the bees come uninvited.

There are certain pursuits which, if not wholly poetic and true, do at least suggest a nobler and finer relation to nature than we know. The keeping of bees, for instance.

I always feel that I have missed some good fortune if I am away from home when my bees swarm. What a delightful summer sound it is! How they come pouring out of the hive, twenty or thirty thousand bees, each striving to get out first!

Beekeeping is farming for intellectuals.

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

It takes a bee 10,000,000 trips to collect enough nectar to make 1 pound of honey.

Forget not bees in winter, though they sleep.

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.

When was ever honey made with one bee in a hive?