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mattbeatty 's review for:
Small Wonder
by Barbara Kingsolver
A fantastic volume filled with thoughtful essays and well-constructed reasoning on natural living, logical pacifism, women, raising children (in particular, daughters), wild spaces, politics, and the like. Kingsolver is clever and funny and poignant. She is well-articulated and her arguments are thought-provoking.
We read this back and forth to each over the course of some time, mainly on long drives. Many of her words hit home.
"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." -- 39
"Poems are everywhere, but easy to miss. [...] There are dusty, lost poems, all over my house" -- 229
"compassion involves not just the heart but the hands" -- 249
"Americans who read and think are patriots of the first order. [...] There are as many ways to love America as there are Americans, and our country needs us all." -- 241
We read this back and forth to each over the course of some time, mainly on long drives. Many of her words hit home.
"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." -- 39
"Poems are everywhere, but easy to miss. [...] There are dusty, lost poems, all over my house" -- 229
"compassion involves not just the heart but the hands" -- 249
"Americans who read and think are patriots of the first order. [...] There are as many ways to love America as there are Americans, and our country needs us all." -- 241