A dog can’t think that much about what he’s doing, he just does what feels right.
BARBARA KINGSOLVERGiven my own circumstances, I find that anything can turn out to belong nearly anywhere.
More Barbara Kingsolver Quotes
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Nothing to do with nature, unless you count human nature.
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I’m not pretending to be ingenuous; I know what I’m doing.
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One of the very first things I figured out about life…is that it’s better to be a hopeful person than a cynical, grumpy one, because you have to live in the same world either way, and if you’re hopeful, you have more fun.
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The changes we dread most may contain our salvation.
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Many of us who aren’t farmers or gardeners still have some element of farm nostalgia in our family past, real or imagined: a secret longing for some connection to a life where a rooster crows in the yard.
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It occurs to her that there is one thing about people you can never understand well enough: how entirely inside themselves they are.
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For Lou Ann, life itself was a life-threatening enterprise.
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Memories do not always soften with time; some grow edges like knives.
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I could never work out whether we were to view religion as a life-insurance policy or a life sentence.
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Now, see, that’s why you want Internet friends. You can find people just exactly like you. Screw your neighbors and your family, too messy…the trouble is, once you filter out everybody that doesn’t agree with you, all that’s left is maybe this one retired surfer guy living in Idaho.
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Plants do everything animals do, but slowly. They migrate, communicate, deceive, stalk their food and, with an ostentation of styles and perfumes to put the animal kingdom to shame, they make love. It’s just that catching them in flagrante delicto might require time-lapse photography.
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The truth needs so little rehearsal.
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No human eye had looked at this moth before; no one would see its friends. So much detail goes unnoticed in the world.
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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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Hope is a renewable option: If you run out of it at the end of the day, you get to start over in the morning.
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