Bites Quote by Aldous Huxley

“A foraging wild creature, intent above all upon survival, is as strong as the grass.”

— Richard Adams

“[Leaves of Grass is] monstrous because it pretends to persuade the soul while it slights the intellect; because it pretends to gratify the feelings…

— Henry James

When you pursue great flavor, you also pursue great ecology.

— Dan Barber

Sweet is the lore which Nature brings; Our meddling intellect Mis-shapes the beauteous forms of things We murder to dissect. Enough of Science and…

— William Wordsworth

“Sweetness was a sign that a plant was edible (most plants that are poisonous to humans taste bitter). Sweetness is also an indication that…

— Cameron Diaz

Grass is the forgiveness of nature - her constant benediction. Forests decay, harvests perish, flowers vanish, but grass is immortal...Its tenacious fibers hold the…

— John James Ingalls

“Nature abhors a gradient.”

— Dorion Sagan Eric Schneider

Every blade of grass is a study; and to produce two, where there was but one, is both a profit and a pleasure.

— Abraham Lincoln

The sweet quality is set opposite to the bitter, and is a gracious, amiable, blessed and pleasant quality, a refreshing of the life, an…

— Jakob Bohme

Nature is a gentle guide, but not more sweet and gentle than prudent and just.

— Michel de Montaigne

“The more one lives alone on the river or in the open country, the clearer it becomes that nothing is more beautiful or great…

— Rabindranath Tagore

Our native soil draws all of us, by I know not what sweetness, and never allows us to forget.

— Anonymous