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| ff6b79d | 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. | page-25 food fruit | Adam Leith Gollner | |
| c38089a | As Marshall McLuhan pointed out, we've become so removed from reality that we're starting to prefer artificiality. | simulacra page-196 | Adam Leith Gollner | |
| 3e7406f | Psychologist Erich Fromm coined the term ["biophilia"] in 1964 as a way of describing the innate attraction to processes of life and growth." | page-5 | Adam Leith Gollner |