Birth defects Quote by 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

“The finest peculiarity of belief is that believers do not recognize themselves as believers.”

— 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…

— Adam Leith Gollner

“Progress has not brought about universal happiness...”

— 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…

— 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,’…

— 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

“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

“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…

— Adam Leith Gollner

“...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…

— Adam Leith Gollner

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

— Adam Leith Gollner

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

— Adam Leith Gollner