Memory is the enemy of wonder — Michael Pollan, The Botany of Desire: A Plant's-Eye View of the World
Memory is the enemy of wonder — Michael Pollan, The Botany of Desire: A Plant's-Eye View of the World
Memory is the enemy of wonder — Michael Pollan, The Botany of Desire: A Plant's-Eye View of the World
Memory is the enemy of wonder — Michael Pollan, The Botany of Desire: A Plant's-Eye View of the World
Memory is the enemy of wonder — Michael Pollan, The Botany of Desire: A Plant's-Eye View of the World
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Memory is the enemy of wonder

— Michael Pollan, The Botany of Desire: A Plant's-Eye View of the World
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More “Forgetting” Quotes

In years past, a person died, and eventually all those with memories of him or her also died, bringing about the complet — Minae Mizumura, Inheritance from Mother
Dementia: Is it more painful to forget, or to be forgotten? — Joyce Rachelle
There's pathos in this familiar routine, in the sounds of homely objects touching surfaces. And in the little sigh she m — Ian McEwan, Nutshell
To remember is to rewrite. To photograph is to replace. The only reliable memories, I suppose, are the ones that have be — Abby Geni, The Lightkeepers
We have to watch Nana's life slipping away from her like a forgotten word. I thought I understood what's happening to he — Shaun David Hutchinson, We Are the Ants
To write a diary is to make a series of choices about what to omit, what to forget. A memorable sandwich, an unmemorable — Sarah Manguso
The more she tried to forget, the more she remembered. — T.K. Kiser, The Firebrand Legacy
We want so badly to be happy – to live the kinds of lives that we always hoped we’d live – that we give gifts to ourselv — Dathan Auerbach, Penpal
And I got to thinking about the moral meaning of memory, per se. And what it means to forget, what it means to fail to f — June Jordan
Sometimes forgetting is the gift that we give ourselves — Dathan Auerbach, Penpal
Some things you never forgot. She had come to believe that the very things the practical world dismissed as ephemera—thi — Stephen King, Lisey's Story
If pain must come, may it come quickly. Because I have a life to live, and I need to live it in the best way possible. I — Paulo Coelho, By the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept