Quotes about Change
Move on. Walk forward into the light.
— Barbara Kingsolver
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.
— Barbara Kingsolver
What I'm saying is nobody feels sorry for anybody anymore, nobody even pretends they do. Not even the President. It's like it's become unpatriotic.
— Barbara Kingsolver
Mi'ija, in a world as wrong as this one, all we can do is to make things as right as we can.
— Barbara Kingsolver
You can't just sashay into the jungle aiming to change it all over to the Christian style, without expecting the jungle to change you right back.
— Barbara Kingsolver
After the final no there comes a yes And on that yes the future world depends. —WALLACE STEVENS, "The Well Dressed Man with a Beard
— Barbara Kingsolver
Every kind of weather is intensified by warming.
— Barbara Kingsolver
People change, she said. Not everything stays with you all your life.
— Barbara Kingsolver
There is nothing boring about the prospect of extinction.
— Barbara Kingsolver
The tree was intact, not cut or broken by wind. What a waste. After maybe centuries of survival it had simply let go of the ground, the wide fist of its root mass ripped up and resting naked above a clay gash in the wooded mountainside. Like herself, it just seemed to have come loose from its station in life.
— Barbara Kingsolver
Every one of us is called upon, probably many times, to start a new life. A frightening diagnosis, a marriage, a move, loss of a job or a limb or a loved one, a graduation, bringing a new baby home: it's impossible to think at first how this all will be possible. Eventually, what moves it all forward is the subterranean ebb and flow of being alive among the living.
— Barbara Kingsolver
I hadn't thought before about how self-sufficiency could turn on you in old age or sickness.
— Barbara Kingsolver