She'd heard theories in her time regarding the number-one enemy of everything, ranging from Osama bin Laden to premarital sex. The dust theory she liked.
Barbara KingsolverTag: dust theory-of-everything
He would have no inkling of the great slog of effort that tied up people like her in the day-to-day.
Barbara KingsolverTag: the-great-slog
We cannot jump to conclusions. All we can do is measure and count. That is the task of science.
Barbara KingsolverHe's not from here, that's the thing," Cub said.
"Just because he's the outsider, he has no say? Should we not read books, then, or listen to nobody outside this county? Where's that going to leave us?
Tag: outsider
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 KingsolverTag: man-vs-nature
They couldn't close out the whole world, maybe, but they could sure find something on their TV or radio to put scientists or foreigners or whatever they thought he was in a bad light. Truly, they were no better than the city people always looking down on southerners ... If people played their channels right, they could be spared from disagreement for the length of their natural lives. Finally she got it. The need for so many channels.
Barbara KingsolverTag: channelling
Finally Cub said, "They don't call it global weirding."
"I know. But I think that's actually the idea."
Cub shook his head. "Weather is the Lord's business.
Tag: global-warning
Art is the antidote that can call us back from the edge of numbness, restoring the ability to feel for another.
Barbara KingsolverHis mustache made two curved lines around the sides of his mouth like parentheses, as if everything he might say would be very quiet, and incidental.
Barbara KingsolverMistakes wreck your life. But they make what you have. It's kind of all one.
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