Global commerce is driven by a single conviction: the inalienable right to earn profit, regardless of any human cost. — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
The moth settled onto the curtain and sat still. It was an astonishing creature, with black and white wings patterned in geometric… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
The march of human progress seemed mainly a matter of getting over that initial shock of being here. — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
Of the two hundred bones in the human body, more than a quarter are in the foot. It is a more complicated… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
There's a graveyard in northern France where all the dead boys from D-Day are buried. The white crosses reach from one horizon… — 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
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 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
Solitude is a human presumption. Every quiet step is thunder to beetle life underfoot, a tug of impalpable thread on the web… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
If someone does learn about the world from reading a novel of mine, that makes me very happy. It's probably not what… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
The arc of history is longer than human vision. It bends. We abolished slavery, we granted universal suffrage. We have done hard… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
Human manners are wildly inconsistent; plenty of people have said so. But this one takes the cake: the manner in which we're… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
I think the most interesting parts of human experience might be the sparks that come from that sort of chipping flint of… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
He lifts her breasts, which fit perfectly into his hands, though he knows this is no promise that he gets to keep… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
Fiction is a sort of inter-human magic, allowing you to travel into a scene and feel it tingle on your skin. — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
On the day I swore to uphold the Hippocratic oath, the small hairs on the back of my neck stood up as… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
Back then I was still appalled that God would set down his barefoot boy and girl dollies into an Eden where, presumably,… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
A human being can be good or bad or right or wrong, maybe. But how can you say a person is illegal?… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
Shoes would interfere with her conversation, for she constantly addresses the ground under her feet. Asking forgiveness. Owning, disowning, recanting, recharting a… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
“Like many human beings, he took the least sign of conversation as his cue to make noise.” — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
Memory runs along deep, fixed channels in the brain, like electricity along its conduits; only a cataclysm can make the electrons rear… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
Most people no longer believe that buying sneakers made in Asian sweatshops is a kindness to those child laborers. Farming is similar.… — 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 Image
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 Image
Cooking is 80 percent confidence, a skill best acquired starting from when the apron strings wrap around you twice. — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
“In Bobby Ogle's version of heaven everyone would wind up in one place, criminals and Muslims included.” — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
“It's what you do that makes your soul, not the other way around.” — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image
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 Image
