Barbara Kingsolver Quotes About Birds

• Gracias por este día, por todos los pájaros a salvo en sus nidos, por lo que sea esto, por la vida.

  Barbara Kingsolver

  Pájaro, Seguro, Nidos

  Barbara Kingsolver (2008). "Verano pródigo", p.215, Faber & Faber

• In exchange for his first taste of powdered milk, Pascal showed me a tree we could climb to find a bird's nest. After we handled and examined the pink-skinned baby birds, he popped one of them into his mouth like a jujube. It seemed to please him a lot. He offered a baby bird to me, pantomiming that I should eat it. I understood perfectly well what he meant, but I refused. He did not seem disappointed to have to eat the whole brood himself.

  Barbara Kingsolver

  Baby, Bird, Tree

• ...confiar en la Creación que se renueva cada día y no sufre en la traducción. Este Dios no trabaja de forma especialmente misteriosa. Aquí el sol sale y se pone exactamente a las seis. Una oruga se convierte en mariposa. Un pájaro cría a su polluelo en el bosque y un árbol de corazón verde sólo crece de una semilla de corazón verde. A veces trae sequías seguidas de lluvias torrenciales y si estas cosas no son siempre lo que yo tenía en mente, tampoco son mi castigo. Son recompensas, digamos por la paciencia de una semilla.

  Barbara Kingsolver

  Rain, Butterfly, Punishment

• How strange to read of a place in a book, and then stand on it, listen to the birds sing, and spit on the cobbles if you want.

  Barbara Kingsolver

  Book, Bird, Want

  Barbara Kingsolver (2009). “The Lacuna”, p.76, Faber & Faber

• Fish gotta swim, birds gotta fly, writers will go to stupefying lengths to get the infernal roar of words out of their skulls and onto paper.

  Barbara Kingsolver

  Skulls, Bird, Swim

  Barbara Kingsolver (2011). “Small Wonder”, p.47, Faber & Faber

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