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... Urban friends ask me how I can stand living here, 'so far from everything?' When I hear this question over the phone, I'm usually looking out the window at a forest, a running creek, and a vegetable garden, thinking: Define everything.

Barbara Kingsolver

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Barbara Kingsolver
Age: 69
Born: 1955
Born: April 8
Essayist
Novelist
Poet
Writer
Annapolis
Maryland
Asks
Forests
Creek
Looking
Phones
Creeks
Friends
Garden
Vegetable
Living
Window
Urban
Running
Usually
Vegetables
Everything
Question
Forest
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