“Memory is the enemy of wonder, which abides nowhere else but in the present. This is why, unless you are a child, wonder depends on forgetting — on a process, that is, of subtraction.”
— Michael Pollan, The Botany of Desire
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Hi Michael! You are quoting from my favorite book! Isn’t it a great book?
Love, Tama