“Nature practices deceptions in every angle. Evolution will create a being for any niche that can be found, no matter how unlikely.… — Jeff VanderMeer Copy Share Image
“The only solution to the environment is neglect, which requires our collapse.” A” — Jeff VanderMeer Copy Share Image
“If people were not by nature insane and resistant to self-improvement or therapy,” — Jeff VanderMeer Copy Share Image
“It is a curious fact of nature that that which is in plain view is oft best hidden. I” — Jeff VanderMeer Copy Share Image
I like North Florida because it's much wilder than the rest of the state. — Jeff Vandermeer Copy Share Image
When you think about the complexity of our natural world - plants using quantum mechanics for photosynthesis, for example - a smartphone… — Jeff VanderMeer Copy Share Image
It is the nature of the writer to question the validity of his world and yet rely on his senses to describe… — Jeff VanderMeer Copy Share Image
“Natural places are no different than human cities. The old exists next to the new. Invasive species integrate with or push out… — Jeff VanderMeer Copy Share Image
“And man is the greatest killer, the greatest hunter of them all. The whole world of nature knows man for the irresistible… — Jeff VanderMeer Copy Share Image
“Imagine that this communication sometimes lends a sense of the uncanny to the landscape because of the narcissism of our human gaze,… — Jeff VanderMeer Copy Share Image
“Perhaps only I could truly make Wick a person, by forgiving him, and if I forgave him, if I showed I forgave him, then… — Jeff VanderMeer Copy Share Image
“I knew these elements were intended for me and me alone. There were no endearments, but I understood in part because of this restraint.… — Jeff VanderMeer Copy Share Image
“What if an infection was a message, a brightness a kind of symphony? As a defense? An odd form of communication? If so, the… — Jeff VanderMeer Copy Share Image
That's how the madness of the world tries to colonize you: from the outside in, forcing you to live in its reality. — Jeff VanderMeer Copy Share Image
What I envy about musicians is, they have this more direct relationship with the audience. They don't have to go through words. Sure, the… — Jeff VanderMeer Copy Share Image
“In college, what had always stuck with him in Astronomy 101 was that the first astronomers to think of points of light not as… — Jeff VanderMeer Copy Share Image
“But I was not a domesticated animals...The dirt and grit of a city, the unending wakefulness of it, the crowdedness, the constant light obscuring… — Jeff VanderMeer Copy Share Image
Dreams, though, are just one kind of inspiration - no more or less special than something in a newspaper article or from the world… — Jeff VanderMeer Copy Share Image
“All of the things that wore you down, even as that was balanced by the electric feeling of being on the side of a… — Jeff VanderMeer Copy Share Image
There simply aren't enough constitutional safeguards in place to protect against a rogue president. — Jeff Vandermeer Copy Share Image
There are some beautiful creatures in the ocean that seem very alien at the same time. — Jeff Vandermeer Copy Share Image
Even a dream as inspiration doesn't mean anything unless you then find that it's sparked an actual story with a plot. — Jeff VanderMeer Copy Share Image
