If the world were fair, destruction and creation would take the same effort. It is far too easy to destroy something. A red strike through a sentence. A flame through a forest. A fist through a flower’s roots. What took life a hundred years to create could be felled in mere minutes.
— Katie Goh, Foreign Fruit: A Personal History of the Orange (Tin House Books, May 6, 2025)
Notes:
- NPR Book Review (May 5, 2025): “Supermarket displays of oranges will never look the same after reading ‘Foreign Fruit'”
- Chicago Review of Books (May 5, 2025): “Unpeeling the history of citrus”
Have a ringside seat to this here on Florida’s Gulf Coast…wholesale destruction of the environment. It’s heartbreaking….
Heartbreaking is right. Gut punch…
How do you read all these books, remember your bookmarks and ensure that they are thoughtfully relevant. I bow…not worthy, to worthy
Thank you Mimi.
Sorry for the typo – ‘not’ worthy…and how do you do it?? I read a lot – but I’m sure it pales when considering how much you read…
🙂 Not really sure Mimi. Read a lot like you. I read a lot of book reviews from various sources which highlight interesting passages. I follow a large number of curators of quotes from various sources and they are fed into an aggregation App called Feedly. And then I save the ones that I found most interesting in an app called Readwise that enables me to search and retrieve by keyword. Hope this helps.
Helps a lot – particularly having one place for aggregating your thoughts, quotes,etc. Thank you!😊
Mimi, dk is AI generated. It’s complex.
Sawsan!
Yes, David!
Laughing – why didn’t I think of this! It explains so much!
Right? Mystery finally solved
Thank you for making it so clear..
something about this draws me in, a tragedy told in real time and so relevant at this point in history
Me too Beth…