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“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.”

Food Evolution Fruit Page 25

Book:The Fruit Hunters: A Story of Nature, Adventure, Commerce, and Obsession

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“I can think of no sadder example of our food paradigm than two posters taped to the window of a California IHOP. One is a colorful photo of pancakes heaped with bananas, strawberries, nuts, syrups and whipped cream with the caption, 'Welcome to Paradise.' Lower down, an 8x10 photocopy states: 'Chemicals known to cause cancer or birth defects or other reproductive harm may be present in food or beverages sold here.' Such signs are posted on many fast-food outlets. Heaven isn't a place on earth, at least not at these drive-throughs.”

Book:The Fruit Hunters: A Story of Nature, Adventure, Commerce, and Obsession

Source: The Fruit Hunters: A Story of Nature, Adventure, Commerce, and Obsession

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

Food Fruit Page 15 Biophilia

Book:The Fruit Hunters: A Story of Nature, Adventure, Commerce, and Obsession

Source: The Fruit Hunters: A Story of Nature, Adventure, Commerce, and Obsession

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

Book:The Fruit Hunters: A Story of Nature, Adventure, Commerce, and Obsession

Source: The Fruit Hunters: A Story of Nature, Adventure, Commerce, and Obsession

“When we parted, on the Boulevard du Montparnasse, I leaned over to give her a kiss on the cheek. ‘If you do find paradise,’ she said, turning to leave, ‘send me a grape.”

Longing Paradise

Author:Adam Leith Gollner

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

Evolution Fruit Page 28 Megafauna

Book:The Fruit Hunters: A Story of Nature, Adventure, Commerce, and Obsession

Source: The Fruit Hunters: A Story of Nature, Adventure, Commerce, and Obsession

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

Fruit Simulacra Page 196

Book:The Fruit Hunters: A Story of Nature, Adventure, Commerce, and Obsession

Source: The Fruit Hunters: A Story of Nature, Adventure, Commerce, and Obsession