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

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

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

You can’t crush ideas by suppressing them. You can only crush them by ignoring them. By refusing to think, refusing to change.

There is a dedication to willful incompetence in many corporate government departments.

One has a right to judge a man by the effect he has over his friends.

Persia is very different from the Arab Middle East in terms of architecture and language. Even though we think of them as one big Middle Eastern area, in truth, Persia's quite distinct.

I don't know every step I'm supposed to take. I think Jesus just wants me to take the next step.

For in my nature I quested for beauty, but God, God hath sent me to sea for pearls.

I am annoyed to find myself continually described by people whom I have never set eyes on as bad-tempered.

Faust: Who holds the devil, let him hold him well, He hardly will be caught a second time.

I don't want nothing old but some old money. Buy me some young ideas. That's what I'm gonna do with it.

Waking a person unnecessarily should not be considered a capital crime. For a first offense, that is.