Barbara Kingsolver Quotes

It's interesting that penny-pinching is an accepted defense for toxic food habits, when frugality so rarely rules other consumer domains. The majority of Americans buy bottled drinking water, for exam...

It's one thing to carry your life wherever you go. Another thing to always go looking for it somewhere else.

I’d like to ask those who favor this position if they would be willing to go to Littleton and explain to some mothers what constitutes an acceptable risk. Really. Because in a society that embraces vi...

Lately whenever I’d scratched somebody’s surface I’d turned up a ghost story.

Let me claim that Africa and I kept company for a while and then parted ways as if we were both party to relations with a failed outcome. Or say I was afflicted with Africa like a bout of a rare disea...

Let's go take a walk down to the blue hole. You need to look at some water.

Life proceeds, it enrages.

Mama says their skin bears scars different from ours because their skin is a map of all the sorrows in their lives.

Misunderstanding is my cornerstone. It's everyone's, come to think of it. Illusions mistaken for truth are the pavement under our feet.

Modern people are just like ancient ones, only more numerous.

Mom is losing, no doubt, because our vegetables have come to lack two features of interest: nutrition and flavor. Storage and transport take predictable tolls on the volatile plant compounds that subt...

Most of what's known about religious practices in pre-Hispanic Mexico has come to us through a Catholic parish priest named Hernando Ruiz de Alarcón, one of the few who ever became fluent in the Nahua...

My stenographer would say, ‘Fairly warned is fair afeared.

No matter what kind of night you're having, morning always wins.

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...

Oh, America the Beautiful, where are our standards? How did Europeans, ancestral cultures to most of us, whose average crowded country would fit inside one of our national parks, somehow hoard the mar...

Passing through every wall are electronic beams that create a shadow play of desire staged by the puppeteers of globalized commerce, who fund their advertising each year with more than a hundred dolla...

Respecting the dignity of a spectacular food means enjoying it at its best. Europeans celebrate the short season of abundant asparagus as a form of holiday. In the Netherlands the first cutting coinci...

The difference is an objective phenomenon of soil science; what we call soil is a community of living, mostly microscopic organisms in a nutrient matrix. Organic farming, by definition, enhances the s...

The most important thing about a person is always the thing you don't know.