Barbara Kingsolver Quotes About Animals

• Even feigning surprise, pretending it was unexpected and saying a ritual thanks, is surely wiser than just expecting everything so carelessly.

  Barbara Kingsolver

  Animal, Vegetables, Miracle

  Barbara Kingsolver (2010). “Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: Our Year of Seasonal Eating”, p.284, Faber & Faber

• Households that have lost the soul of cooking from their routines may not know what they are missing: the song of a stir-fry sizzle, the small talk of clinking measuring spoons, the yeasty scent of rising dough, the painting of flavors onto a pizza before it slides into the oven.

  Barbara Kingsolver

  Song, Animal, Vegetables

  Barbara Kingsolver (2010). “Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: Our Year of Seasonal Eating”, p.130, Faber & Faber

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

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  Animal, Vacation, Average

  Barbara Kingsolver (2010). “Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: Our Year of Seasonal Eating”, p.4, Faber & Faber

• Dios es espantoso, Dios es grande... tú eliges. Yo elijo esto: Dios está en los detalles, en los milagros completamente innecesarios que a veces se nos presentan como estrellas para guiarnos. Son la promesa de buena fortuna en un día despejado, y los animales en las nubes; mira bien y los verás. No preguntes si son reales.

  Barbara Kingsolver

  Estrellas, Real, Animal

  Barbara Kingsolver (2011). "Pequeña maravilla", p.9, Faber & Faber

• Humans can be fairly ridiculous animals.

  Barbara Kingsolver

  Animal, Vegetables, Miracle

  Barbara Kingsolver (2010). “Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: Our Year of Seasonal Eating”, p.55, Faber & Faber

• Cooking is 80 percent confidence, a skill best acquired starting from when the apron strings wrap around you twice.

  Barbara Kingsolver

  Animal, Vegetables, Skills

  Barbara Kingsolver (2010). “Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: Our Year of Seasonal Eating”, p.282, Faber & Faber

• Somos animales. Nacemos como cualquier otro mamífero y vivimos toda nuestra vida en torno a pensamientos animales disfrazados.

  Barbara Kingsolver

  Animal, Mammals, Born

  "Animal Dreams". p. 118. Book by Barbara Kingsolver, 1990.

• La mayoría de la gente ya no cree que comprar zapatillas fabricadas en talleres asiáticos sea una bondad para esos niños trabajadores. La agricultura es similar. En todos los países del mundo, el escenario más humano para los agricultores es probablemente alimentar a los que viven cerca, si los mercados internacionales se lo permiten. El transporte de alimentos se ha convertido en una extraña y rentable ecuación económica que ya no trata realmente de alimentar a nadie... Si te preocupan los agricultores, deja que las patatas se queden en casa.

  Barbara Kingsolver

  País, Niños, Bondad

• Una vez que empiezas a cocinar, una cosa lleva a la otra. Una nueva receta es tan excitante como una cita a ciegas. Un nuevo ingrediente, que el cielo me ayude, es un asunto embriagador.

  Barbara Kingsolver

  Animal, Vegetables, Miracle

  Barbara Kingsolver (2010). “Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: Our Year of Seasonal Eating”, p.130, Faber & Faber

• 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

  Animal, Vegetables, Corn Syrup

  Barbara Kingsolver (2010). “Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: Our Year of Seasonal Eating”, p.130, Faber & Faber

• 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

  Father, Holiday, Mean

  Barbara Kingsolver (2010). “Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: Our Year of Seasonal Eating”, p.30, Faber & Faber

• 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

  Animal, Vegetables, Miracle

  Barbara Kingsolver (2010). “Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: Our Year of Seasonal Eating”, p.130, Faber & Faber

• 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

  Animal, Vegetables, Food Culture

  Barbara Kingsolver (2010). “Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: Our Year of Seasonal Eating”, p.16, Faber & Faber

• The standard approach has been to pump up the dosage of chemicals ... Twenty percent of these approved-for-use pesticides are listed by the EPA as carcinogenic in humans.

  Barbara Kingsolver

  Animal, Vegetables, Miracle

  Barbara Kingsolver (2010). “Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: Our Year of Seasonal Eating”, p.165, Faber & Faber

• But still, I’d be darned if I was going to be one of those Americans who stomp around Italy barking commands in ever-louder English. I was going to be one of those Americans who traversed Italy with my forehead knit in concentration, divining wordsw from their Latin roots and answering by wedging French cognates into Italian pronunciations spliced onto a standard Spanish verb conjugation.

  Barbara Kingsolver

  Latin, Animal, Italian

• Over the last decade our country has lost an average of 300 farms a week. Large or small, each of those was the lifes work of a real person or family, people who built their lives around a promise and watched it break.

  Barbara Kingsolver

  Country, Real, Animal

  Barbara Kingsolver (2010). “Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: Our Year of Seasonal Eating”, p.113, Faber & Faber

• Terms like that, 'Humane Society,' are devised with people like me in mind, who don't care to dwell on what happens to the innocent.

  Barbara Kingsolver

  Animal, People, House

• my own relationships with the animals in my life are absurdly complex: Some I love, some I eat, and the scraps left over from the ones I eat, I feed to the ones I love.

  Barbara Kingsolver

  Animal, Eating, Complexes

  Barbara Kingsolver (2011). “Small Wonder”, p.84, Faber & Faber

• Plants do everything animals do, but slowly. They migrate, communicate, deceive, stalk their food and, with an ostentation of styles and perfumes to put the animal kingdom to shame, they make love. It's just that catching them in flagrante delicto might require time-lapse photography.

  Barbara Kingsolver

  Photography, Animal, Making Love

• As a biologist, I can't think of myself as anything but an animal among animals and plant.

  Barbara Kingsolver

  Animal, Thinking, Plant

  "A life in writing" by Maya Jaggi, www.theguardian.com. June 11, 2010.

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