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The standard approach has been to pump up the dosage of chemicals ... Twenty percent of these approved-for-use pesticides are listed by the EPA as carcinogenic in humans.

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Barbara Kingsolver
Age: 69
Born: 1955
Born: April 8
Essayist
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I concentrate on character, theme, language, structure, voice. It actually surprises me that no matter what I write, people declare it intently political. I'm just writing about the world I know, as it is. Wounds and griefs included.
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A flower is a plant's way of making love.
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Once you start cooking, one thing leads to another. A new recipe is as exciting as a blind date. A new ingredient, heaven help me, is an intoxicating affair.
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I write every moment that is humanly possible. I write every day and every night. The only discipline I lack is the discipline is to quit.
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If I had to give up my life for anything, it would have to have the resilience of hope, the elation of new literacy, the brilliant life of a field of flowers, the elementary kindness of bread. Nothing short of that. It would have to be something as sure as love.
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The very least you can do in your life is to figure out what you hope for!
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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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You always need that spark of imagination. Sometimes I'm midway through a book before it happens. However, I don't wait for the muse to descend, I sit down every day and I work when I'm not delivering lambs on the farm.
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The way I see it, a person isn't nothing more than a scarecrow... The only difference between one that stands up good and one that blows over is what kind of a stick they're stuck up there on.
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We're surrounded by mandates, and I believe that literature should be mandate-free. I feel very strongly about that.
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As long as I kept moving, my grief streamed out behind me like a swimmer's long hair in water. I knew the weight was there but it didn't touch me. Only when I stopped did the slick, dark stuff of it come floating around my face, catching my arms and throat till I began to drown. So I just didn't stop.
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it's the thing you fear most that walks beside you all the time.
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Pain reaches the heart with electrical speed, but truth moves to the heart as slowly as a glacier.
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It kills you to see them grow up. But I guess it would kill you quicker if they didn't.
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