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I live in a rural part of Virginia surrounded by farms and farmers.

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
Downstream is always someone else’s up.
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Always Downstream Else Someone
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
The artist deals with what cannot be said in words. The novelist says in words what cannot be said in words.
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Artist Novelist Writing
We’re surrounded by mandates, and I believe that literature should be mandate-free. I feel very strongly about that.
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Believe Literature Should
Eaters must understand, how we eat determines how the world is used.
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Determine Used World
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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Cities Firsts Groups
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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Looks Patience World
I live in a rural part of Virginia surrounded by farms and farmers.
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Farmers Farms Virginia
I grew up aware of all the people I depended on and who depended on me.
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Grew Grew Up People
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
For Lou Ann, life itself was a life-threatening enterprise.
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Enterprise Life Threatening
Alice wonders if other women in the middle of the night have begun to resent their Formica.
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Middle Night Wonder
Parenting is something that happens mostly while you’re thinking of something else.
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Else Happensm Something Thinking
There’s always more to a story than a body can see from the fenceline.
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Always Body Fenceline Stories
Listen. Slide the weight from your shoulders and move forward. You are afraid you might forget, but you never will. You will forgive and remember.
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Change Forgiveness Moving

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