The world is so huge that people are always getting lost in it. There are too many ideas and things and people too many directions to go. I was starting to believe that the reason it matters to care passionately about something is that it whittles the world down to a more manageable size. It makes the world seem not huge and empty but full of possibility.
Susan OrleanI can imagine a future in which real books will exist but in a more limited, particular way.
Susan OrleanEvery corny thing that's said about living with nature - being in harmony with the earth, feeling the cycle of the seasons - happens to be true.
Susan OrleanIn my perfect world, we would establish perhaps four national zoos of unimpeachable quality and close the rest of them.
Susan Orlean