October 26, 2015 - 21:42
"If so," Geek said, handing it back, "you should keep the book. Maybe you can learn something aboutyour heritage and inclinations."
"You want to know what my heritage has taught me? If you're a cactus, you'd better hang onto your spines." (178)
“That’s what it felt like when I was growing up, like I was a random fruit in a field of genetically identical potatoes.” (4)
"Every seed gas a story, Geek says, encrypted in a narrative line that stretches back for thousands of years... Seeds tell the story of migrations and drifts, so if you learn to read them, they are very much like books- with one big difference... Book information is relevant only to human beings... However, the information contained in a seed is a different story, entirely vital, pertaining to life itself." (171)