Nature is one great big wood-chipper. Sooner or later, everything shoots out the other end in a spray of blood, bones and hair. – Doug Coupland
Human beings are the only animal that thinks they change who they are simply by moving to a different place. Birds migrate, but its not quite the same thing. – Doug Coupland
The real killers in the business world arent the ones who aim for the top, its the ones who aim for two notches below the top. – Doug Coupland
We live in an era with no historical precedents. History is no longer useful as a tool in helping us understand current changes. – Doug Coupland
Millions of [the indigenous peoples of India] have lived to an advanced age, without having tasted of any thing that ever possessed life, and been wholly free from a chain of maladies, which have scourged every civilized nation on the globe… – “Food,” The Medical Adviser, and Guide to Health and Long Life, edited by Alex.