The loudest sound on earth, she thought, is a man with nothing to do. — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
Sometimes the strength of motherhood is greater than natural laws. — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
“Looking out on a clean plank of planet earth, we can get shaken right down to the bone by the bronze-eyed possibility… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
“Man against Nature...Of all the possible conflicts, that was the one that was hopeless. Even a slim education had taught her this… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
“To hear you tell it, you'd think man was only put on this earth to keep urinals from going to waste.” — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
“The density of the butterflies in the air now gave her a sense of being underwater, plunged into a deep pond among… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
“The color brown, I realized, is anything but nondescript. It comes in as many hues as there are colors of earth, with… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
The death of something living is the price of our own survival, and we pay it again and again. We have no… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
What we lose in our great human exodus from the land is a rooted sense, as deep and intangible as religious faith,… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
“On the hill behind her crows flew one by one into the bare trees, arranging their dark blots in the scrim of… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
“Jack London and Ernest Hemingway, confidence swaggering into the storm: Man against Nature. Of all the possible conflicts, that was the one… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
“a single-file army of ants biting a mammoth tree into uniform grains and hauling it down to the dark for their ravenous… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
A careless way of sauntering across the earth and breaking open its treasures, a terrible dependency on sucking out the world's best… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
“Predator bugs don't reproduce so fast, as a rule. But see, that works out right in nature because one predator eats a… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
We aimed for no more than to have dominion over every creature that moved upon the earth. And so it came to… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
With all due respect for the wondrous ways people have invented to amuse themselves and one another on paved surfaces, I find… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
A miscarriage is a natural and common event. All told, probably more women have lost a child from this world than haven't.… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
There must be limits, somewhere, to the human footprint on this earth. When the whole of the world is reduced to nothing… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
But nothing on this earth is guaranteed, when you get right down to it, you know ? I've been thinking about that.… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
“But humans have a built-in weakness for fats and sugar. We evolved in lean environments where it was a big plus for… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
“People need wild places. Whether or not we think we do, we do. We need to be able to taste grace and… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
“Jesus was a more reliable backer, evidently, less likely to drink himself unconscious or get liver cancer. No wonder people chose Him as their… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share
Now I'm starting to think he wasn't supposed to be my whole life, he was just this doorway to me. — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share
Cooking is 80 percent confidence, a skill best acquired starting from when the apron strings wrap around you twice. — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share
“In Bobby Ogle's version of heaven everyone would wind up in one place, criminals and Muslims included.” — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share
“Lusa turned to Crys, her eyes shining. "That was a luna." Crys shrugged. "So?" "So? So what? You want it should sing, too?” — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share
“An imperfectly remembered life is a useless treachery. Every day, more fragments of the past roll around heavily in the chambers of an empty… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share
Respecting the dignity of a spectacular food means enjoying it at its best. Europeans celebrate the short season of abundant asparagus as a form… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share
“Somehow it had come to pass that this man was her whole world, and she had failed to take his measure.” — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share
After 'The Poisonwood Bible' was published, several people believed that my parents were missionaries, which could not be further from the truth. — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share
I can count all the ways in which being a mother has enriched my understanding of the world, of character, my sense of the… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share
But we've all ended up giving body and soul to Africa, one way or another. Even Adah, who's becoming an expert in tropical epidemiology… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share
If the Lord hasn't got a boyfriend lined up for me to marry, that's his business. — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share
