From the fallen tree everybody makes firewood.
BARBARA KINGSOLVER
If you never stepped on anybody’s toes, you never been for a walk.
More Barbara Kingsolver Quotes
-
From the fallen tree everybody makes firewood.
BARBARA KINGSOLVER -
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.
BARBARA KINGSOLVER -
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.
BARBARA KINGSOLVER -
Fiction and essays can create empathy for the theoretical stranger.
BARBARA KINGSOLVER -
Anybody can get worked up, if they have the intention. It’s peacefulness that is hard to come by on purpose.
BARBARA KINGSOLVER -
The loudest sound on earth, she thought, is a man with nothing to do.
BARBARA KINGSOLVER -
There are days when I am envious of my hens: when I hunger for a purpose as perfect and sure as a single daily egg.
BARBARA KINGSOLVER -
You don’t think you’ll live past it and you don’t really. The person you were is gone. But the half of you that’s still alive wakes up one day and takes over again.
BARBARA KINGSOLVER -
People love to read about sins and errors, but not their own.
BARBARA KINGSOLVER -
I rarely think of poetry as something I make happen; it is more accurate to say that it happens to me. Like a summer storm, a house afire, or the coincidence of both on the same day.
BARBARA KINGSOLVER -
Given my own circumstances, I find that anything can turn out to belong nearly anywhere.
BARBARA KINGSOLVER -
-
A dog can’t think that much about what he’s doing, he just does what feels right.
BARBARA KINGSOLVER -
Every life is different because you passed this way and touched history… Listen being dead is not worse than being alive. It is different though. You could say the view is larger.
BARBARA KINGSOLVER -
I live in a rural part of Virginia surrounded by farms and farmers.
BARBARA KINGSOLVER -
