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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 Kingsolver

Life proceeds, it enrages. The untouched ones spend their luck without a thought, believing they deserve it.
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Believe Deserve Luck
For Lou Ann, life itself was a life-threatening enterprise.
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Enterprise Life Threatening
Silence has many advantages…I write and draw in my notebook and I read anything I please.
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Notebook Silence Writing
It seems very safe to me to be surrounded by green growing things and water.
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Growing Safe Water
You see mother, you had no life of your own. They have no idea. One has only a life of one’s own.
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Ideas Life Mother No Own
Sleeping alone seemed unnatural to me, and pitiful, something done in hospitals or when you’re contagious.
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Contagious Done Sleep
What I want is so simple I almost can’t say it: elementary kindness.
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Kindness Simple Want
I’m not pretending to be ingenuous; I know what I’m doing.
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Knows Pretending
If you want sweet dreams, you’ve got to live a sweet life.
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Dream Sweet Want
Why is it that only girls stand on the sides of their feet? As if they’re afraid to plant themselves?
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Feet Feminist Girl
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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Dog People Political
Literature is one of the few kinds of writing in the world that does not tell you what to buy, want, see, be, or believe. It’s more like conversation, raising new questions and inspiring you to answer them for yourself.
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Believe Moving Writing
Don’t try to figure out what other people want to hear from you; figure out what you have to say.
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Creativity People Writing
She is inhumanly alone. And then, all at once, she isn’t.
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Alone Inhumanity Once
Every life is different because you passed this way and touched history.
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Different Life Way
It is harrowing for me to try to teach 20-year-old students, who earnestly want to improve their writing. The best I can think to tell them is: Quit smoking, and observe posted speed limits. This will improve your odds of getting old enough to be wise.
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Thinking Wise Writing

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.

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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.

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