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 be adequately summarized in an evening news wrap-up.
BARBARA KINGSOLVERHonk if you love Jesus, text while driving if you want to meet up.
More Barbara Kingsolver Quotes
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I’m not pretending to be ingenuous; I know what I’m doing.
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The truth needs so little rehearsal.
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Global commerce is driven by a single conviction: the inalienable right to earn profit, regardless of any human cost.
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Humans can be fairly ridiculous animals.
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The changes we dread most may contain our salvation.
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Wherever I am, let me never forget to distinguish want from need
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She kept swimming out into life because she hadn’t yet found a rock to stand on.
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Everything truly important is washable.
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Recall that whatever lofty things you might accomplish today, you will do them only because you first ate something that grew out of the dirt.
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It’s a great freedom to give up on love, and get on with everything else.
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I don’t bring expectations to any of my books. I don’t tell people what to do. I want to invite them in.
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The artist deals with what cannot be said in words. The novelist says in words what cannot be said in words.
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You could love your crazy people, even admire them, instead of resenting that they’re not self-sufficient.
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The way I see it, a person isn’t nothing more than a scarecrow… The only difference between one that stands up good and one that blows over is what kind of a stick they’re stuck up there on.
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Every time I step onto an airplane, I turn to the right and take a good, hard stare into the maw of the engine. I don’t know what I’m looking for. I just do it.
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