Barbara Kingsolver Nature Quotes

#1. A man who is willing to accept restriction and barriers and is not afraid of them is free. A man who does nothing but fight restrictions and barriers will usually be trapped.

L. Ron Hubbard

#2. We have lost awe and wonder. In reference to the mystery of life itself, we've lost respect for movement in our planet.

Gabrielle Roth

#3. I know nothing of what it is to be a gangster.

Michael K. Williams

#4. The density of the butterflies in the air now gave her a sense of being underwater, plunged into a deep pond among bright fishes.

Barbara Kingsolver

#5. I have tried to teach my children to love nature as my parents taught that reverence to me
through example, proximity, and plenty of field guides and age-appropriate biology books.

Barbara Kingsolver

#6. My mum's always on at me to have children and blames 'that stupid stage thing you do' for me not already having a family.

Paloma Faith

#7. Jack London and Ernest Hemingway, confidence swaggering into the storm: Man against Nature. Of all the possible conflicts, that was the one that was hopeless. Even a slim education had taught her this much: Man loses.

Barbara Kingsolver

#8. I may not be desperate. But I'm close.

Kristin Billerbeck

#9. When one man of popularity can let the world know the problem, he might lose a few dollars himself. He might lose his life. But he's helping millions.

Muhammad Ali

#10. Anyone ever tell you that you look like an orange in that jumpsuit? Auntie Lenore? More like Auntie Clementine.

Kim Harrison

#11. On the hill behind her crows flew one by one into the bare trees, arranging their dark blots in the scrim of branches and adding their warnings to the drear sounds of this day. Gone, gone, they rasped. Here was a dead world learning to speak in dissonant, unbearable sounds.

Barbara Kingsolver

#12. To become Christ-like is the only thing in the whole world worth caring for, the thing before which every ambition of man is folly and all lower achievement vain.

Henry Drummond

#13. Everyone wants the tallest tree to fall

Barbara Kingsolver

#14. Why didn't I go in? I'm such a chicken. I'm such an idiot. I should have kissed her. I've blown it. I should just go and knock on her door and just kiss her. It would be romantic. It would be something we could someday tell our kids. I'm gonna do that right now.
[drives away]

Charlie Kaufman