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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.”

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

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

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

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“...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

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“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