I have to put a spoiler here though the quote doesn't really say much too much about the book. Just arrived to this quote and it hit me hard amid all the wrongs in the world we tend to notice again and again. The book itself is the most curious book I've read but I highly recommend it.
"The closer men came to perfecting for themselves a paradise, the more impatient they seemed to become with it, and with themselves as well. They made a garden of pleasure, and became progressively more miserable with it as it grew in richness and power and beauty; for then, perhaps, it was easier for them to see that something was missing in the garden, some tree or shrub that would not grow. When the world was in darkness and wretchedness, it could believe in perfection and yearn for it. But when the world became bright with reason and riches, it began to sense the narrowness of the needle’s eye, and that rankled for a world no longer willing to believe or yearn. Well, they were going to destroy it again, were they–this garden Earth, civilized and knowing, to be torn apart again that Man might hope again in wretched darkness."
by giriinthejungle
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Excellent book. Excellent quote