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Value is not made of money, but a tender balance of expectation and longing.

Barbara Kingsolver

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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Environmental Feelings Ideas
We agreed with him in principal – we were little scientists, born and bred. But children robbed of love will dwell on magic.
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Children Littles Magic
Thanks for this day, for all birds safe in their nests, for whatever this is, for life.
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Bird Nests Safe
Of the two hundred bones in the human body, more than a quarter are in the foot. It is a more complicated instrument than an automobile transmission, and it is treated with far less consideration.
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Automobile Body Feet Human Two
Sugar, it’s no parade but you’ll get down the street one way or another, so you’d just as well throw your shoulders back and pick up the pace.
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Pace Sugar Way
The truth needs so little rehearsal.
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Honesty Needs Truth
How pointless life could be, what a foolish business of inventing things to love, just so you could dread losing them.
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Foolish Losing Loss
We’re animals. We’re born like every other mammal and we live our whole lives around disguised animal thoughts.
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Animal Born Mammals
A flower is a plant’s way of making love.
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Flower Making Love Way
They all attended Hester’s church, which Dellarobia viewed as a complicated pyramid scheme of moral debt and credit resting ultimately on the shoulders of the Lord, but rife with middle managers.
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Church Pyramid Scheme
I don’t bring expectations to any of my books. I don’t tell people what to do. I want to invite them in.
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Book Expectations People
It’s terrible to lose somebody, but it’s also true that some people never have anybody to lose, and I think that’s got to be so much worse.
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People Terrible Thinking
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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might Next Splits
Finally, cooking is good citizenship. It’s the only way to get serious about putting locally raised foods into your diet, which keeps farmlands healthy and grocery money in the neighborhood.
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Animal Miracle Vegetables
Tall and straight I may appear, but I will always be Ada inside. A crooked little person trying to tell the truth. The power is in the balance: we are our injuries, as much as we are our successes
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Ada Balance Trying
There were two things about Mama. One is she always expected the best out of me. And the other is that then no matter what I did, whatever I came home with, she acted like it was the moon I had just hung up in the sky and plugged in all the stars. Like I was that good.
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Home Moon Stars

Value is not made of money, but a tender balance of expectation and longing.

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