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I live in a rural part of Virginia surrounded by farms and farmers.

Barbara Kingsolver

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Barbara Kingsolver
Age: 69
Born: 1955
Born: April 8
Essayist
Novelist
Poet
Writer
Annapolis
Maryland
Farmers
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Live
Rural
Virginia
Farms
Surrounded

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I have my own sheep and I literally sheer the sheep and knot sweaters for friends and family from scratch.
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No matter what kind of night you're having, morning always wins.
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it takes your sleeping self years to catch up to where you really are. ... when you go on a trip, in your dreams you will still be home. Then after you've come home you'll dream of where you were. It's a kind of jet lag of the consciousness.
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In a world as wrong as this one, all we can do is make things as right as we can.
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A dog can't think that much about what he's doing, he just does what feels right.
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God, why does a mortal man have children? It is senseless to love anything this much.
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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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Want is a thing that unfurls unbidden like fungus, opening large upon itself, stopless, filling the sky. But needs, from one day to the next, are few enough to fit in a bucket, with room enough left to rattle like brittle brush in a dry wind.
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