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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.

Barbara Kingsolver

I live in a rural part of Virginia surrounded by farms and farmers.
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Farmers Farms Virginia
She is inhumanly alone. And then, all at once, she isn’t.
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Alone Inhumanity Once
Humans can be fairly ridiculous animals.
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Animal Miracle Vegetables
I didn’t study writing in school, I studied biology as an undergraduate and graduate student. So I think that I write fiction in the scientific way. I love invention, obviously; I love creation of character. But I do feel very rooted in the real world, even in the way that I create characters.
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Real School Writing
Sometimes the strength of motherhood is greater than natural laws.
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Family Inspiring Mothers Day
Empathy is really the opposite of spiritual meanness. It’s the capacity to understand that every war is both won and lost. And that someone else’s pain is as meaningful as your own.
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Meaningful Pain Spiritual
Thanks for this day, for all birds safe in their nests, for whatever this is, for life.
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Bird Nests Safe
When I want to take God at his word exactly, I take a peep out the window at His creation. Because that, darling, He makes fresh for us everyday.
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Everyday Want Window
…our best task is to move forward without insisting others slide backward.
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Moving Slides Tasks
All of the promises of politicians, generals, madmen, and crusaders that war can create peace have yet to be borne out.
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Politician Promise War
The loudest sound on earth, she thought, is a man with nothing to do.
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Earth Men Sound
A certain feeling comes from throwing your good life away, and it is one part rapture.
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Feeling Good Life Throwing
Eaters must understand, how we eat determines how the world is used.
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Determine Used World
I grew up aware of all the people I depended on and who depended on me.
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Grew Grew Up People
A flower is a plant’s way of making love.
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Flower Making Love Way
For Lou Ann, life itself was a life-threatening enterprise.
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Enterprise Life Threatening

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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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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