Small Wonder Quotes

“The changes we dread most may contain our salvation.”
― Barbara Kingsolver, Small Wonder

“What we lose in our great human exodus from the land is a rooted sense, as deep and intangible as religious faith, of why we need to hold on to the wild and beautiful places that once surrounded us.”
― Barbara Kingsolver, Small Wonder

“A flower is a plant's way of making love.”
― Barbara Kingsolver, Small Wonder

“God is frightful, God is great--you pick. I choose this: God is in the details, the completely unnecessary miracles sometimes tossed up as stars to guide us. They are the promise of good fortune in a cloudless day, and the animals in the clouds; look hard enough, and you'll see them. Don't ask if they're real.”
― Barbara Kingsolver, Small Wonder

“Maybe life doesn't get any better than this, or any worse, and what we get is just what we're willing to find: small wonders, where they grow.”
― Barbara Kingsolver, Small Wonder

“What you hold in your hands right now, beneath these words, is consecrated air and time and sunlight and, first of all, a place.”
― Barbara Kingsolver, Small Wonder

“Looking out on a clean plank of planet earth, we can get shaken right down to the bone by the bronze-eyed possibility of lives that are not our own.”
― Barbara Kingsolver, Small Wonder

“We were not made for this killing thing, I swear. Back up. Big mistake.”
― Barbara Kingsolver, Small Wonder

“Man against Nature...Of all the possible conflicts, that was the one that was hopeless. Even a slim education had taught her this much: Man loses.”
― Barbara Kingsolver, Small Wonder