The gift of desire

"When Eve bit into the apple, she gave us the world as we know the world -beautiful, flawed, dangerous, full of being... All we know of heaven we know from Eve who gave us Earth, a serviceable blueprint. Without Eve, there would be no utopias... Eve's legacy to us is the imperative of desire."
Barbara Grizutti Harrison, "A meditation on Eve", from "Out of the garden"
Image: "Adam and Eve" (detail)  Lucas Cranach the Elder