Smart folks thinking out loud about finding paradise in your fruit bowl (or somewhere else nearby).

“I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.”
- Jorge Luis Borges, Argentine poet

“Dogs are our link to paradise. They don’t know evil or jealousy or discontent. To sit with a dog on a hillside on a glorious afternoon is to be back in Eden, where doing nothing was not boring – it was peace.”
- Milan Kundera, Czech writer

“The academy is not paradise. But learning is a place where paradise can be created.”
bell hooks, African-American social activist

“Or were I in the wildest waste, Sae bleak and bare, sae bleak and bare, The desert were a paradise If thou wert there, if thou wert there.”
-Robert Burns, Scotland’s bard