Adam Leith Gollner Quotes

To experience biophilia is to love a diversity that, as limitless as it is fragile, both haunts us and fills us with hope.

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

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 occasioned. Enraptured with progress, we deepened our collective worship of science. As incredulity to metanarratives rose, so did a massive publicity campaign to convince us of the omnipotence of science.

...avacados, prickly pears and papayas used to be gulped down whole, seeds and all, by fridge-sized armadillos called glyptodonts.