Barbara Kingsolver Quotes About Birds

Quotes about: Birds

• Thanks for this day, for all birds safe in their nests, for whatever this is, for life.

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  Bird, Safe, Nests

  Barbara Kingsolver (2008). “Prodigal Summer”, p.215, Faber & Faber

• In exchange for his first taste of powdered milk, Pascal showed me a tree we could climb to find a bird's nest. After we handled and examined the pink-skinned baby birds, he popped one of them into his mouth like a jujube. It seemed to please him a lot. He offered a baby bird to me, pantomiming that I should eat it. I understood perfectly well what he meant, but I refused. He did not seem disappointed to have to eat the whole brood himself.

  Barbara Kingsolver

  Baby, Bird, Tree

• ...trust in Creation which is made fresh daily and doesn’t suffer in translation. This God does not work in especially mysterious ways. The sun here rises and sets at six exactly. A caterpillar becomes a butterfly. A bird raises its brood in the forest and a greenheart tree will only grow from a greenheart seed. He brings drought sometimes followed by torrential rains and if these things aren’t always what I had in mind, they aren’t my punishment either. They’re rewards, let’s say for the patience of a seed.

  Barbara Kingsolver

  Rain, Butterfly, Punishment

• How strange to read of a place in a book, and then stand on it, listen to the birds sing, and spit on the cobbles if you want.

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  Book, Bird, Want

  Barbara Kingsolver (2009). “The Lacuna”, p.76, Faber & Faber

• Fish gotta swim, birds gotta fly, writers will go to stupefying lengths to get the infernal roar of words out of their skulls and onto paper.

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  Skulls, Bird, Swim

  Barbara Kingsolver (2011). “Small Wonder”, p.47, Faber & Faber

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