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1. "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. But the entire clash stems from a misapprehension of the nature of belief. We can't not believe; and we won't ever know everything. We know this much: knowledge remains an endless advance toward an end point that endlessly recedes." ~ Adam Leith Gollner
2. "The finest peculiarity of belief is that believers do not recognize themselves as believers." ~ Adam Leith Gollner
3. "As Marshall McLuhan pointed out, we've become so removed from reality that we're starting to prefer artificiality." ~ Adam Leith Gollner
4. "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
5. "...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." ~ Adam Leith Gollner
6. "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." ~ Adam Leith Gollner
7. "...avacados, prickly pears and papayas used to be gulped down whole, seeds and all, by fridge-sized armadillos called glyptodonts." ~ Adam Leith Gollner
8. "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
9. "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 whipped cream with the caption, 'Welcome to Paradise.' Lower down, an 8x10 photocopy states: 'Chemicals known to cause cancer or birth defects or other reproductive harm may be present in food or beverages sold here.' Such signs are posted on many fast-food outlets. Heaven isn't a place on earth, at least not at these drive-throughs." ~ Adam Leith Gollner
10. "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
11. "Having commodified nature, we're eating the shrapnel of a worldwide homogeneity bomb." ~ Adam Leith Gollner

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