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Don’t try to figure out what other people want to hear from you; figure out what you have to say.

Barbara Kingsolver

From the fallen tree everybody makes firewood.
BARBARA KINGSOLVER

Fallen Tree Trouble
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
It seems very safe to me to be surrounded by green growing things and water.
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Growing Safe Water
What you lose in blindness is the space around you, the place where you are, and without that you might not exist. You could be nowhere at all.
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might Reality Space
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
If you’re standing in the manure pile, it’s somebody’s job to mention the stink.
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Jobs Standing Stink
Pain reaches the heart with electrical speed, but truth moves to the heart as slowly as a glacier.
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Heart Moving Pain
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
In a world as wrong as this one, all we can do is make things as right as we can.
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Life Thing World Wrong
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
To think is not always to see.
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Always Thinking Visible
A sound-bite culture can’t discuss science very well. Exactly what we’re losing when we reduce biodiversity, the causes and consequences of global warming-these traumas can’t be adequately summarized in an evening news wrap-up.
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Causes Evening Sound
The truth needs so little rehearsal.
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Honesty Needs Truth
I considered her my ally, because, like me, she was imperfect.
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Allies Imperfect Like Me
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
BARBARA KINGSOLVER

Ada Balance Trying
The happiest people are the ones with the most community.
BARBARA KINGSOLVER

Community People

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