10 quotes found
“Progress has not brought about universal happiness...”
“Having commodified nature, we're eating the shrapnel of a worldwide homogeneity bomb.”
“The finest peculiarity of belief is that believers do not recognize themselves as believers.”
“To experience biophilia is to love a diversity that, as limitless as it is fragile, both haunts us and fills us with hope. ”
“...avacados, prickly pears and papayas used to be gulped down whole, seeds and all, by fridge-sized armadillos called glyptodonts.”
“Of all the wars that have taken place wince then, none has endured so long as the conflict between knowledge and belief. For centuries now, knowledge has attempted, unsuccessfully, to supersede bel...”
“The twentieth century prided itself on invalidating the metaphysical. Doubts about the afterlife arose even as so-called nonbelievers attempted to locate surrogates for the loss of meaning atheism ...”
“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...”
“I can think of no sadder example of our food paradigm than two posters taped to the window of a California IHOP. One is a colorful photo of pancakes heaped with bananas, strawberries, nuts, syrups ...”
“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.”
