15 Quotes by Adam Leith Gollner

When we parted, on the Boulevard du Montparnasse, I leaned over to give her a kiss on the cheek. ‘If you do find paradise,’ she said, turning to leave, ‘send me a grape.

Every time we eat a fruit, we engage in a reproductive act.

The playwright Edward Albee has characterized [the suddenness of the appearance of fruits and flowers in evolutionary history] as 'that heartbreaking second when it all got together: the sugars and the acids and the ultraviolets, and the next thing you knew there were tangerines and string quartets.

To experience biophilia is to love a diversity that, as limitless as it is fragile, both haunts us and fills us with hope.

Having commodified nature, we're eating the shrapnel of a worldwide homogeneity bomb.

...avacados, prickly pears and papayas used to be gulped down whole, seeds and all, by fridge-sized armadillos called glyptodonts.

Progress has not brought about universal happiness...

The finest peculiarity of belief is that believers do not recognize themselves as believers.

As Marshall McLuhan pointed out, we've become so removed from reality that we're starting to prefer artificiality.