Barbara Kingsolver Quotes

357 quotes in 4555 categories

• Wherever I am, let me never forget to distinguish want from need
• The daily work - that goes on, it adds up.
• A dog can't think that much about what he's doing, he just does what feels right.
• Why is it that only girls stand on the sides of their feet? As if they're afraid to plant themselves?
• The most assiduous task of parenting is to divine the difference between boundaries and bondage.
• There is no perfect time to write. There is only now.
• A careless way of sauntering across the earth and breaking open its treasures, a terrible dependency on sucking out the world's best juices for ourselves-these…
• There's a graveyard in northern France where all the dead boys from D-Day are buried. The white crosses reach from one horizon to the other.…
• A sound-bite culture can't discuss science very well. Exactly what we're losing when we reduce biodiversity, the causes and consequences of global warming-these traumas can't…
• When the scope of the problem seems insuperable, isn't it time to call this one, give it up, and get on with life as we…
• You don't think you'll live past it and you don't really. The person you were is gone. But the half of you that's still alive…
• I could never work out whether we were to view religion as a life-insurance policy or a life sentence.
• Most people no longer believe that buying sneakers made in Asian sweatshops is a kindness to those child laborers. Farming is similar. In every country…
• Once you start cooking, one thing leads to another. A new recipe is as exciting as a blind date. A new ingredient, heaven help me,…
• Corn syrup and added fats have been outed as major ingredients in fast food, but they hide out in packaged foods too, even presumed-innocent ones…
• Even feigning surprise, pretending it was unexpected and saying a ritual thanks, is surely wiser than just expecting everything so carelessly.
• Respecting the dignity of a spectacular food means enjoying it at its best. Europeans celebrate the short season of abundant asparagus as a form of…
• Finally, cooking is good citizenship. It's the only way to get serious about putting locally raised foods into your diet, which keeps farmlands healthy and…
• Food culture in the United States has long been cast as the property of a privileged class. It is nothing of the kind. Culture is…
• The standard approach has been to pump up the dosage of chemicals ... Twenty percent of these approved-for-use pesticides are listed by the EPA as…

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