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Small Wonder

Small Wonder
Barbara Kingsolver

Small Wonder is a collection of 23 essays on environmentalism and social justice by American novelist and biologist Barbara Kingsolver, published in 2002 by Harper Collins. It reached number 3 in the New York Times non-fiction paperback best seller list in May 2003. The cover shows two scarlet macaws, the subject of one of the essays, in flight against a tropical forest.

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“The changes we dread most may contain our salvation.”

Barbara Kingsolver book Small Wonder

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“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 book Small Wonder

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