Here was the real horror, Degrandpre thought, this breaking of barriers. Civilization, after all, was the making of divisions, of walls and fences to parse the chaotic wild into ordered cells of human imagination. Wilderness invades the garden and reason is overthrown.

More quotes by Robert Charles Wilson

Darwinia (1998)

Spin (2005)

This Peaceable Land, or, The Unbearable Vision of Harriet Beecher Stowe (2009)

Vortex (2011)

Julian Comstock: A Story of 22nd-Century America (2009)

Quote text and notes from Wikiquote: Robert Charles Wilson (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0. Source quality and labels are our own summary of what Wikiquote records.