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Solitude is a human presumption. Every quiet step is thunder to beetle life underfoot, a tug of impalpable thread on the web pulling mate to mate and predator to prey, a beginning or an end. Every choice is a world made

Solitude is a human presumption. Every quiet step is thunder to beetle life underfoot, a tug of impalpable thread on the web pulling mate to mate and predator to prey, a beginning or an end. Every choice is a world made new for the chosen.

Barbara Kingsolver
Choices, Solitude, World
Barbara Kingsolver (2008). “Prodigal Summer”, p.353, Faber & Faber

Food is the rare moral arena in which the ethical choice is generally the one more likely to make you groan with pleasure.

Barbara Kingsolver
Choices, Arena, Moral
Barbara Kingsolver (2010). “Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: Our Year of Seasonal Eating”, p.22, Faber & Faber

The death of something living is the price of our own survival, and we pay it again and again. We have no choice. It is the one solemn promise every life on earth is born and bound to keep.

Barbara Kingsolver
Choices, Survival, Promise

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