Discover new books on Goodreads
Meet your next favorite book

Patrick Barry

Add friend
Sign in to Goodreads to learn more about Patrick.


Stranded in the S...
Rate this book
Clear rating

 
Prodigal Summer
Patrick Barry is currently reading
bookshelves: currently-reading
Reading for the 3rd time
Rate this book
Clear rating

 
Be Here Now
Patrick Barry is currently reading
bookshelves: currently-reading
Rate this book
Clear rating

progress: 
 
  (50%)
Feb 04, 2026 06:50AM

 
See all 7 books that Patrick is reading…
Loading...
Aldo Leopold
“One of the penalties of an ecological education is that one lives alone in a world of wounds. Much of the damage inflicted on land is quite invisible to laymen. An ecologist must either harden his shell and make believe that the consequences of science are none of his business, or he must be the doctor who sees the marks of death in a community that believes itself well and does not want to be told otherwise.”
Aldo Leopold, A Sand County Almanac

Barbara Kingsolver
“The very least you can do in your life is to figure out what you hope for. And the most you can do is live inside that hope. Not admire it from a distance but live right in it, under its roof. What I want is so simple I almost can’t say it: elementary kindness. Enough to eat, enough to go around. The possibility that kids might one day grow up to be neither the destroyers nor the destroyed. That’s about it. Right now I'm living in that hope, running down its hallway and touching the walls on both sides.”
Barbara Kingsolver, Animal Dreams
tags: hope

Aldo Leopold
“There are two spiritual dangers in not owning a farm. One is the danger of supposing that breakfast comes from the grocery, and the other that heat comes from the furnace.”
Aldo Leopold, A Sand County Almanac

James Baldwin
“There is a reason, after all, that some people wish to colonize the moon, and others dance before it as before an ancient friend.”
James Baldwin, No Name in the Street

David  Mitchell
“My life amounts to no more than one drop in a limitless ocean. Yet what is any ocean, but a multitude of drops?”
David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas

year in books
Alison
81 books | 34 friends

Marcel ...
515 books | 28 friends

Maggie ...
37 books | 14 friends

Sam Lipkin
3 books | 2 friends

Lauren ...
81 books | 1 friend

Morgan ...
9 books | 7 friends

Kevin B...
87 books | 4 friends

Carolyn...
1 book | 9 friends

More friends…



Polls voted on by Patrick

Lists liked by Patrick