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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
Forest
Forests
Forever
Lives
Seedlings
Stumps
Eats

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I have seen women looking at jewelry ads with a misty eye and one hand resting on the heart, and I only know what they're feeling because that's how I read the seed catalogs in January.
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What keeps me awake at the wheel is the thrill of trying something completely new with each book. I’m not a risk-taker in life, generally speaking, but as a writer I definitely choose the fast car, the impossible rock face, the free fall.
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Our house is like an empty cigarette packet, lying around reminding you what's not in it.
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Maybe life doesn't get any better than this, or any worse, and what we get is just what we're willing to find: small wonders, where they grow.
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the conspicuous consumption of limited resources has yet to be accepted widely as a spiritual error, or even bad manners
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A good title holds magic, some cognitive dissonance, a little grit between the teeth, but above all it is the jumping-off place into wonder.
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The reason most people have kids is because they get pregnant.
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The march of human progress seemed mainly a matter of getting over that initial shock of being here.
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Your own family resemblances are a frustrating code, most easily read by those who know you least.
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People love to read about sins and errors, but not their own.
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My way of finding a place in this world is to write one.
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What keeps you going isn't some fine destination but just the road you're on, and the fact that you know how to drive.
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People read books to escape the uncertainties of life.
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I never think that anything I'm writing is bluntly political in any way. I'm not going for commentary.
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Sometimes I prayed for Baby Jesus to make me good, but Baby Jesus didn't.
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You know reviewers, they are the wind in their own sails.
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It's terrible to lose somebody, but it's also true that some people never have anybody to lose, and I think that's got to be so much worse.
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It's one thing to carry your life wherever you go. Another thing to always go looking for it somewhere else.
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