Douglas Coupland Quotes About Running

Quotes about: Running

• Try not thinking of peeling an orange. Try not imagining the juice running down your fingers, the soft inner part of the peel. The smell. Try and you can't. The brain doesn't process negatives.

  Douglas Coupland

  Running, Thinking, Smell

  "Microserfs: Tran Shumanity" by Douglas Coupland, www.wired.com. July 1, 1995.

• I think we're simply going to run out of Nature before we have a chance to destroy it.

  Douglas Coupland

  Running, Thinking, Chance

  Douglas Coupland (1993). “Shampoo Planet”, p.42, Simon and Schuster

• You really have to wonder why we even bother to get up in the morning. I mean, really: Why work? Simply to buy more stuff? That's just not enough. Look at us all. What's the common assumption that got us all from there to here? What makes us deserve the ice cream and running shoes and wool Italian suits we have? I mean, I see all of us trying so hard to acquire so much stuff, but I can't help but feeling that we didn't merit it.

  Douglas Coupland

  Running, Morning, Mean

• Earth was not built for six billion people all running around and being passionate about things. The world was built for about two million people foraging for roots and grubs.

  Douglas Coupland

  Running, Two, Roots

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