Everything you're sure is right can be wrong in another place. Barbara Kingsolver More Quotes by Barbara Kingsolver More Quotes From 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. Barbara Kingsolver evening causes sound Food culture in the United States has long been cast as the property of a privileged class. It is nothing of the kind. Culture is the property of a species. Barbara Kingsolver food-culture vegetables animal Finally, cooking is good citizenship. It's the only way to get serious about putting locally raised foods into your diet, which keeps farmlands healthy and grocery money in the neighborhood. Barbara Kingsolver miracle vegetables animal Respecting the dignity of a spectacular food means enjoying it at its best. Europeans celebrate the short season of abundant asparagus as a form of holiday. In the Netherlands the first cutting coincides with Father's Day, on which restaurants may feature all-asparagus menus and hand out neckties decorated with asparagus spears. Barbara Kingsolver holiday mean father Corn syrup and added fats have been outed as major ingredients in fast food, but they hide out in packaged foods too, even presumed-innocent ones like crackers. Barbara Kingsolver corn-syrup vegetables animal 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. Barbara Kingsolver miracle vegetables animal Most people no longer believe that buying sneakers made in Asian sweatshops is a kindness to those child laborers. Farming is similar. In every country on earth, the most human scenario for farmers is likely to be feeding those who live nearby-if international markets would allow them to do it. Food transport has become a bizarre and profitable economic equation that's no longer really about feeding anyone ... If you care about farmers, let the potatoes stay home. Barbara Kingsolver kindness country children I could never work out whether we were to view religion as a life-insurance policy or a life sentence. Barbara Kingsolver work-out views 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. Barbara Kingsolver teenager giving children At some point in my life I'd honestly hoped love would rescue me from the cold, drafty castle I lived in. But at another point, much earlier I think, I'd quietly begun to hope for nothing at all in the way of love, so as not to be disappointed. It works. It gets to be a habit. Barbara Kingsolver castles way thinking For if there is any single thing that everyone hopes for most dearly, it must be this: that the youngest outlive the oldest. Barbara Kingsolver ifs Planning complex, beautiful meals and investing one's heart and time in their preparation is the opposite of self-indulgence. Kitchen-based family gatherings are process-oriented, cooperative, and in the best of worlds, nourishing and soulful. A lot of calories get used up before anyone sits down to consume. But more importantly, a lot of talk happens first, news exchanged, secrets revealed across generations, paths cleared with a touch on the arm. I have given and received some of my life's most important hugs with those big oven-mitt potholders on both hands. Barbara Kingsolver self heart beautiful When I want to take God at his word exactly, I take a peep out the window at His creation. Because that, darling, He makes fresh for us everyday. Barbara Kingsolver everyday want window (on asparagus) Europeans of the Renaissance swore by it as an aphrodisiac, and the church banned it from nunneries. Barbara Kingsolver asparagus aphrodisiac church God, why does a mortal man have children? It is senseless to love anything this much. Barbara Kingsolver doe men children Let me claim that Africa and I kept company for a while and then parted ways as if we were both party to relations with a failed outcome. Or say I was afflicted with Africa like a bout of a rare disease from which I have not managed a full recovery. 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No good ideas for fixing what's broken in the land. Because if you happen to mention it's broken, you are automatically disqualified. Barbara Kingsolver asking-questions land ideas He needs to go rub his soul against life. Barbara Kingsolver soul needs
