Barbara Kingsolver Quotes About Culture

Quotes about: Culture

• A sound-bite culture can't discuss science very well. Exactly what we're losing when we reduce biodiversity, the causes and consequences of global warming-these traumas can't be adequately summarized in an evening news wrap-up.

  Barbara Kingsolver

  Evening, Causes, Sound

  Barbara Kingsolver (2011). “Small Wonder”, p.116, Faber & Faber

• Food culture in the United States has long been cast as the property of a privileged class. It is nothing of the kind. Culture is the property of a species.

  Barbara Kingsolver

  Animal, Vegetables, Food Culture

  Barbara Kingsolver (2010). “Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: Our Year of Seasonal Eating”, p.16, Faber & Faber

• Watching Italians eat (especially men, I have to say) is a form of tourism the books don't tell you about. They close their eyes, raise their eyebrows into accent marks, and make sounds of acute appreciation. It's fairly sexy. Of course I don't know how these men behave at home, if they help with the cooking or are vain and boorish and mistreat their wives. I realized Mediterranean cultures have their issues. Fine, don't burst my bubble. I didn’t want to marry these guys, I just wanted to watch. (p. 247)

  Barbara Kingsolver

  Sexy, Appreciation, Book

  Barbara Kingsolver (2010). “Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: Our Year of Seasonal Eating”, p.247, Faber & Faber

• Culture is a slingshot moved by the force of its past

  Barbara Kingsolver

  Past, Culture, Slingshots

  Barbara Kingsolver (2008). “The Poisonwood Bible”, p.436, Faber & Faber

• I think the most interesting parts of human experience might be the sparks that come from that sort of chipping flint of cultures rubbing against each other.

  Barbara Kingsolver

  Thinking, Interesting, Culture

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