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.

—Barbara Kingsolver

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Barbara Ellen Kingsolver (born April 8, 1955) is an American novelist, essayist, and poet. Her widely known works include The Poisonwood Bible, the tale of a missionary family in the Congo; and Animal, Vegetable, Miracle, a nonfiction account of her family's attempts to eat locally. In 2023, she was awarded...

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Solitude is a human presumption. Every quiet step is thunder to beetle life underfoot, a tug of impalpable thread on the web pulling mate to mate and predator to prey, a beginning or an end.

—Barbara Kingsolver

Memories do not always soften with time; some grow edges like knives.

—Barbara Kingsolver in The Lacuna

It's frightening when things you love appear suddenly changed from what you have always known.

—Barbara Kingsolver in The Poisonwood Bible

Don't try to figure out what other people want to hear from you; figure out what you have to say. It's the one and only thing you have to offer.

—Barbara Kingsolver

What we lose in our great human exodus from the land is a rooted sense, as deep and intangible as religious faith, of why we need to hold on to the wild and beautiful places that once surrounded us. We seem to succumb so easily to the prevailing human tendency to pave such places over, build subdivisions upon them, and name them the Willows, or Peregrine's Roost, or Elk Meadows, after whatever it was that got killed there. Apparently, it's hard for us humans to doubt, even for a minute, that this program of plunking down our edifices at regular intervals over the entire landmass of planet Earth is overall a good idea.

—Barbara Kingsolver

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Even very recently, the elders could say [to the youths]: "You know, I have been young and you never have been old." But today's young people can reply: "You never have been young in the world I am young in, and you never can be."… This break between generations is wholly new: it is planetary and universal.

—Margaret Mead

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The true definition of science is this: the study of the beauty of the world.

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Just remember who you are. The world will try to change you into someone else. Don't let them. That's the best advice anyone can give you.

—Cinda Williams Chima in The Warrior Heir

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We live in a Newtonian world of Einsteinian physics ruled by Frankenstein logic.

—David Russell

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There are a terrible lot of lies going around the world, and the worst of it is half of them are true.

—Winston Churchill

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