Adam Leith Gollner Quotes

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

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

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#3. 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.

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#4. I came across a Haida saying that had etched itself into my memory banks: 'Joy is a well-made object, equaled only to the joy of making it.

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#5. Progress has not brought about universal happiness ...

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#6. Psychologist Erich Fromm coined the term ["biophilia"] in 1964 as a way of describing the innate attraction to processes of life and growth.

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

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

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#9. 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.

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

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