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This Forest eats itself and lives forever.

Barbara Kingsolver

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Barbara Kingsolver
Age: 69
Born: 1955
Born: April 8
Essayist
Novelist
Poet
Writer
Annapolis
Maryland
Lives
Seedlings
Stumps
Eats
Forest
Forests
Forever

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Eaters must understand, how we eat determines how the world is used.
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Friends, there is nothing like your own family to make you appreciate strangers!
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Every life is different because you passed this way and touched history.
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Root out all the to be verbs in your prose and bludgeon them until dead. No It was or they are or I am. Don't let it be, make it happen.
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Southern Appalachians have been ridiculed since the country began. In fiction, they're usually depicted in a cartoonish manner. The region is poor, and very suspicious of outsiders, so there's a sort of 'us versus them' situation. They're easy to poke fun at.
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It's the one thing we never quite get over: that we contain our own future.
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I don't look like who I am.
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A choir of seedlings arching their necks out of rotted tree stumps, sucking life out of death. I am the forest's conscience, but remember, the forest eats itself and lives forever.
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Anybody can get worked up, if they have the intention. It's peacefulness that is hard to come by on purpose.
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My father wears his faith like the bronze breastplate of God's footsoldiers while our mother's is more like a good cloth coat with a secondhand fit.
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