Thanks for this day, for all birds safe in their nests, for whatever this is, for life.
BARBARA KINGSOLVERThe artist deals with what cannot be said in words. The novelist says in words what cannot be said in words.
More Barbara Kingsolver Quotes
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From the fallen tree everybody makes firewood.
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Nothing to do with nature, unless you count human nature.
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Mr. Shepherd, ye cannot stop a bad thought from coming into your head. But ye need not pull up a chair and bide it sit down.” – Mrs. Brown
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The happiest people are the ones with the most community.
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Be still, and the world is bound to turn herself inside out to entertain you. Everywhere you look, joyful noise is clanging to drown out quiet desperation.
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I don’t understand how any good art could fail to be political.
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Growing food was the first activity that gave us enough prosperity to stay in one place, form complex social groups, tell our stories, and build our cities.
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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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Anybody can get worked up, if they have the intention. It’s peacefulness that is hard to come by on purpose.
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We’re animals. We’re born like every other mammal and we live our whole lives around disguised animal thoughts.
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This is what it means to be alone: everyone is connected to everyone else, their bodies are a bright liquid life flowing around you, sharing a single heart that drives them to move all together. If the shark comes they will all escape, and leave you to be eaten.
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Downstream is always someone else’s up.
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…our best task is to move forward without insisting others slide backward.
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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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You know things are bad when a woman without any legs and who recently lost two of her own kids feels sorry for you.
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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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Memories do not always soften with time; some grow edges like knives.
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The average food item on a U.S. grocery shelf has traveled farther than most families go on their annual vacations.
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The very least you can do in your life is to figure out what you hope for. And the most you can do is live inside that hope. Not admire it from a distance but live right in it, under its roof.
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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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Life proceeds, it enrages. The untouched ones spend their luck without a thought, believing they deserve it.
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The moth settled onto the curtain and sat still. It was an astonishing creature, with black and white wings patterned in geometric shapes, scarlet underwings, and a fat white body with black spots running down it like a snowman’s coal buttons.
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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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I live in a rural part of Virginia surrounded by farms and farmers.
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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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Silence has many advantages…I write and draw in my notebook and I read anything I please.
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