Animal Quotes by Barbara Kingsolver

Humans can be fairly ridiculous animals.

— Barbara Kingsolver

“animals behaved with purpose, it seemed. Unlike people.”

— Barbara Kingsolver

Cooking is 80 percent confidence, a skill best acquired starting from when the apron strings wrap around you twice.

— Barbara Kingsolver

Food culture in the United States has long been cast as the property of a privileged class. It is nothing of the…

— Barbara Kingsolver

A dog can't think that much about what he's doing, he just does what feels right.

— Barbara Kingsolver

We're animals. We're born like every other mammal and we live our whole lives around disguised animal thoughts.

— Barbara Kingsolver

As a biologist, I can't think of myself as anything but an animal among animals and plant.

— Barbara Kingsolver

Even feigning surprise, pretending it was unexpected and saying a ritual thanks, is surely wiser than just expecting everything so carelessly.

— Barbara Kingsolver

Terms like that, 'Humane Society,' are devised with people like me in mind, who don't care to dwell on what happens to…

— Barbara Kingsolver

The average food item on a U.S. grocery shelf has traveled farther than most families go on their annual vacations.

— Barbara Kingsolver

Households that have lost the soul of cooking from their routines may not know what they are missing: the song of a…

— Barbara Kingsolver

The standard approach has been to pump up the dosage of chemicals ... Twenty percent of these approved-for-use pesticides are listed by…

— Barbara Kingsolver

Plants do everything animals do, but slowly. They migrate, communicate, deceive, stalk their food and, with an ostentation of styles and perfumes…

— Barbara Kingsolver

Over the last decade our country has lost an average of 300 farms a week. Large or small, each of those was…

— Barbara Kingsolver

my own relationships with the animals in my life are absurdly complex: Some I love, some I eat, and the scraps left…

— Barbara Kingsolver

God is frightful, God is great--you pick. I choose this: God is in the details, the completely unnecessary miracles sometimes tossed up…

— Barbara Kingsolver

Corn syrup and added fats have been outed as major ingredients in fast food, but they hide out in packaged foods too,…

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Finally, cooking is good citizenship. It's the only way to get serious about putting locally raised foods into your diet, which keeps…

— Barbara Kingsolver

Respecting the dignity of a spectacular food means enjoying it at its best. Europeans celebrate the short season of abundant asparagus as…

— Barbara Kingsolver

But still, I’d be darned if I was going to be one of those Americans who stomp around Italy barking commands in…

— Barbara Kingsolver

Most people no longer believe that buying sneakers made in Asian sweatshops is a kindness to those child laborers. Farming is similar.…

— Barbara Kingsolver

Once you start cooking, one thing leads to another. A new recipe is as exciting as a blind date. A new ingredient,…

— Barbara Kingsolver