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  1. Barbara Kingsolver _ Small Wonder

    I'm a scientist who thinks it wise to enter the doors of creation not with a lion tamer's whip and chair, but with the reverence humankind has traditionally summoned for entering places of worship: a temple, a mosque, or a cathedral. A sacred grove, as ancient as time.
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  2. Barbara Kingsolver _ Small Wonder

    I am losing faith in such a simple thing as despising an enemy with unequivocal righteousness.
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  3. Barbara Kingsolver _ Small Wonder

    Passing through every wall are electronic beams that create a shadow play of desire staged by the puppeteers of globalized commerce, who fund their advertising each year with more than a hundred dollars spent for this planet's every man, woman, child.
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  4. Barbara Kingsolver _ Small Wonder

    What is new is that we now know so very much about the world, or at least the part of it that is most picturesquely exploding on any given day, that we're left with a desperate sense that all of it is exploding, all the time.
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  5. Barbara Kingsolver _ Small Wonder

    Bears and wolves are our fairy-tale archenemies, and in these tales we teach our children only, and always, to kill them, rather than to tiptoe past and let them sleep. Maybe that's why I'm comforted by the image of a small child curled in the embrace of a mother bear. We need new bear and wolf tales for our times, since so many of our old ones seem to be doing us no good. Now we're finding that it takes our every effort of will and imagination to pull back, to stop in our tracks as hunger and hunted, to halt our habit of killing, before every kind of life we know arrives at the brink of extinction.
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  6. Barbara Kingsolver _ Small Wonder

    In our darkest hours we may find comfort in the age-old slogan from the resistance movement, declaring that we shall not be moved. But we need to finish that sentence. Moved from where? Are we anchoring to the best of what we've believed in, throughout our history, or merely to an angry new mode of self-preservation? The American moral high ground can't possibly be an isolated mountaintop from which we refuse to learn anything at all to protect ourselves from monstrous losses.
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  7. Barbara Kingsolver _ Small Wonder

    It is widely rumored, and also true, that I wrote my first novel in a closet.
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  8. Barbara Kingsolver _ Small Wonder

    Writing, which was both painful and palliative for me, turned out to be my own way of giving blood in a crisis. I can only hope this unit of words will have a longer shelf life than the forty-two days of a unit of blood, as this critical time blends seamlessly into the next one.
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  9. Barbara Kingsolver _ Small Wonder

    The changes we dread most may contain our salvation.
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