Barbara Kingsolver Quotes About Silence

Quotes about: Silence

• With all due respect for the wondrous ways people have invented to amuse themselves and one another on paved surfaces, I find that this exodus from the land makes me unspeakably sad. I think of the children who will never know, intuitively, that a flower is a plant's way of making love, or what silence sounds like, or that trees breathe out what we breathe in.

  Barbara Kingsolver

  Nature, Children, Flower

  Barbara Kingsolver (2011). “Small Wonder”, p.48, Faber & Faber

• Silence has many advantages. When you do not speak, other people presume you to be deaf or feeble-minded and promptly make a show of their own limitations.

  Barbara Kingsolver

  People, Silence, Speak

  Barbara Kingsolver (2009). “The Poisonwood Bible: A Novel”, p.34, Harper Collins

• Silence has many advantages…I write and draw in my notebook and I read anything I please.

  Barbara Kingsolver

  Notebook, Writing, Silence

  Barbara Kingsolver (2008). “The Poisonwood Bible”, p.31, Faber & Faber

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