The first steps toward stewardship are awareness, appreciation, and the selfish desire to have the things around for our kids to see. Presumably the unselfish motives will follow as we wise up.
BARBARA KINGSOLVERAlice wonders if other women in the middle of the night have begun to resent their Formica.
More Barbara Kingsolver Quotes
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There was a roaring in my ears and I lost track of what they were saying. I believe it was the physical manifestation of unbearable grief.
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there are people who read my work and accuse me of being political! As far as I’m concerned that’s like accusing a dog of having a bark!
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Many of us who aren’t farmers or gardeners still have some element of farm nostalgia in our family past, real or imagined: a secret longing for some connection to a life where a rooster crows in the yard.
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I know I’m a rare person, a trained scientist who writes fiction, because so few contemporary novelists engage with science.
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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. If it does, then we won’t.
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A writer’s occupational hazard: I think of eavesdropping as minding my business.
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A dog can’t think that much about what he’s doing, he just does what feels right.
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The talkers are rising above the thinkers.
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Life proceeds, it enrages. The untouched ones spend their luck without a thought, believing they deserve it.
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As a biologist, I can’t think of myself as anything but an animal among animals and plant.
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I don’t understand how any good art could fail to be political.
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From the fallen tree everybody makes firewood.
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Every life is different because you passed this way and touched history.
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It’s surprising how much memory is built around things unnoticed at the time.
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For Lou Ann, life itself was a life-threatening enterprise.
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There is no perfect time to write. There is only now.
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Honk if you love Jesus, text while driving if you want to meet up.
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Silence has many advantages…I write and draw in my notebook and I read anything I please.
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You never knew which split second might be the zigzag bolt dividing all that went before from the everything that comes next.
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When moral superiority combines with billowing ignorance, they fill up a hot-air balloon that’s awfully hard not to poke.
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I learned to produce whether I wanted to or not. It would be easy to say oh, I have writer’s block, oh, I have to wait for my muse. I don’t. Chain that muse to your desk and get the job done.
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The substance of grief is not imaginary. It’s as real as rope or the absence of air, and like both those things, it can kill.
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Time cures you first, and then it kills you.
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The power is in the balance: we are our injuries, as much as we are our successes.
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Memories do not always soften with time; some grow edges like knives.
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Insomnia’s different,” I said. It was hard to explain this to people. “You know the light that comes on when you open the refrigerator door? Just imagine it stays on all the time, even after you close the door. That’s what it’s like in my head. The light stays on.
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