No human eye had looked at this moth before; no one would see its friends. So much detail goes unnoticed in the world.
BARBARA KINGSOLVERCodi: Gives you the willies, doesn’t it? The thought of raising kids in a place where the front yard ends in a two-hundred-foot drop? [referring to cliff dwellings] Loyd: No worse than raising up kids where the front yard ends in a freeway.
More Barbara Kingsolver Quotes
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A writer’s occupational hazard: I think of eavesdropping as minding my business.
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There are days when I am envious of my hens: when I hunger for a purpose as perfect and sure as a single daily egg.
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Some of us know how we came by our fortune and some of us don’t; but we wear it all the same
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To people who think of themselves as God’s houseguests, American enterprise must seem arrogant beyond belief. Or stupid. A nation of amnesiacs, proceeding as if there were no other day but today. Assuming the land could also forget what had been done to it.
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Nothing to do with nature, unless you count human nature.
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The most important part of a story is the piece of it you don’t know.
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To think is not always to see.
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Sadness is more or less like a head cold – with patience, it passes. Depression is like cancer.
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… Urban friends ask me how I can stand living here, ‘so far from everything?’ When I hear this question over the phone, I’m usually looking out the window at a forest, a running creek, and a vegetable garden, thinking: Define everything.
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You can be as earnest and ridiculous as you need to be, if you don’t attempt it in isolation. The ridiculously earnest are known to travel in groups. And they are known to change the world.
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The truth needs so little rehearsal.
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People ask without wanting to know.
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That was when we smelled the rain. It was so strong it seemed like more than just a smell. When we stretched out our hands we could practically feel it rising up from the ground. I don’t know how a person could ever describe that scent.
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What I want is so simple I almost can’t say it: elementary kindness.
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Back then I was still appalled that God would set down his barefoot boy and girl dollies into an Eden where, presumably, He had just turned loose elephantiasis and microes that eat the human cornea. Now I understand, God is not just rooting fo the dollies.
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