Quotes from Barbara Kingsolver

Feeling that morality has nothing to do with the way you use the resources of the world is an idea that can't persist much longer. If it does, then we won't.

Friends, there is nothing like your own family to make you appreciate strangers!

Wars and elections are both too big and too small to matter in the long run. The daily work - that goes on, it adds up.

The average food item on a U.S. grocery shelf has traveled farther than most families go on their annual vacations.

Growing food was the first activity that gave us enough prosperity to stay in one place, form complex social groups, tell our stories, and build our cities.

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.

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.

The friend who holds your hand and says the wrong thing is made of dearer stuff than the one who stays away.

It's the one thing we never quite get over: that we contain our own future.

Why does a person even get up in the morning? You have breakfast, you floss your teeth so you'll have healthy gums in your old age, and then you get in your car and drive down I-10 and die. Life is so stupid I can't stand it.

Value is not made of money, but a tender balance of expectation and longing.