"We have only a brief moment in history when fossil fuels will continue to allow us rapid worldwide travel. Let us use this time wisely." - seedsman J.L. Hudson, writing in his catalog on what he sees as the human calling: facilitating dissemination of genetic information among and between the world's species.

"Migrants of ape in gasoline grack of history." - William Burroughs

Michael Pollan references both quotations in Second Nature.