Barbara Kingsolver Quotes

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• Mom is losing, no doubt, because our vegetables have come to lack two features of interest: nutrition and flavor. Storage and transport take predictable tolls…
• Feeling that morality has nothing to do with the way you use the resources of the world is an idea that can't persist much longer.…
• Quit smoking, and observe posted speed limits. This will improve your odds of getting old enough to be wise.
• The arc of history is longer than human vision. It bends. We abolished slavery, we granted universal suffrage. We have done hard things before. And…
• It's the same struggle for each of us, and the same path out: the utterly simple, infinitely wise, ultimately defiant act of loving one thing…
• I have seen women looking at jewelry ads with a misty eye and one hand resting on the heart, and I only know what they're…
• The wrong words are impossible when there are no words.
• Eaters must understand, how we eat determines how the world is used.
• Tomorrow these villagers would carry their secret icons into the church without any priest and light the candles themselves, moving together in single-minded grace. Like…
• Like Daniel she enteres the lions' den, but lacking Daniel's pure and unblemished soul, Ada is spiced with the flavors of vice that make for…
• In exchange for his first taste of powdered milk, Pascal showed me a tree we could climb to find a bird's nest. After we handled…
• Why does a person even get up in the morning? You have breakfast, you floss your teeth so you'll have healthy gums in your old…
• Growing food was the first activity that gave us enough prosperity to stay in one place, form complex social groups, tell our stories, and build…
• It's as if cats live in a seperate universe that takes up the same space as ours, but is full of facinating things like mice…
• The happiest people are the ones with the most community.
• Our childhood had passed over into history overnight. The transition was unnoticed by anyone but ourselves.
• In the places that call me out, I know I'll recover my wordless childhood trust in the largeness of life and its willingness to take…
• Prayer had always struck me as more or less a glorified attempt at a business transaction.
• The reason most people have kids is because they get pregnant.
• I don't understand how any good art could fail to be political.

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