“ As Marshall McLuhan pointed out, we've become so removed from reality that we're starting to prefer artificiality. Adam Leith Gollner
“ 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 th… Adam Leith Gollner
“ Psychologist Erich Fromm coined the term [biophilia] in 1964 as a way of describing the innate attraction to processes of life and growth. Adam Leith Gollner
“ Having commodified nature, we're eating the shrapnel of a worldwide homogeneity bomb. Adam Leith Gollner
“ To experience biophilia is to love a diversity that, as limitless as it is fragile, both haunts us and fills us with hope. Adam Leith Gollner
“ 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 and… 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. Adam Leith Gollner
“ ...avacados, prickly pears and papayas used to be gulped down whole, seeds and all, by fridge-sized armadillos called glyptodonts. Adam Leith Gollner
“ 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 occ… Adam Leith Gollner
“ The finest peculiarity of belief is that believers do not recognize themselves as believers. Adam Leith Gollner
“ 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 belief… Adam Leith Gollner
