937 Quotes by Barbara Kingsolver

A sound-bite culture can't discuss science very well. Exactly what we're losing when we reduce biodiversity, the causes and consequences of global warming-these traumas can't be adequately summarized in an evening news wrap-up.

He needs to go rub his soul against life.

When the scope of the problem seems insuperable, isn't it time to call this one, give it up, and get on with life as we know it. I do know that answer to that one: that's called child abuse. When my teenager worries that her generation won't be able to fix this problem, I have to admit to her that it won't be up to her generation. It's up to mine. This is a now-or-never kind of project.

Silence has many advantages. When you do not speak, other people presume you to be deaf or feeble-minded and promptly make a show of their own limitations.

I've never gotten over high school, to the extent that I'm still a little surprised that my friends want to hang out with me.

I could never work out whether we were to view religion as a life-insurance policy or a life sentence.

How strange to read of a place in a book, and then stand on it, listen to the birds sing, and spit on the cobbles if you want.

The past is all we know of the future.

There's always more to a story than a body can see from the fenceline.