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Food Quotes by Henry David Thoreau
- One farmer says to me, "You cannot live on vegetable food solely, for it furnishes nothing to make the bones with;" and so he religiously…
- Every man who has ever been earnest to preserve his higher or poetic faculties in the best condition, has been particularly inclined to abstain from…
- I sat at a table where were rich food and wine in abundance, and obsequious attendance, but sincerity and truth were not; and I went…
- A man may esteem himself happy when that which is his food is also his medicine.
- From my experience with wild apples, I can understand that there may be reason for a savage's preferring many kinds of food which the civilized…
- Why should not we, who have renounced the king's authority, have our national preserves, where no villages need be destroyed, in which the bear and…
- I have found it to be the most serious objection to coarse labors long continued, that they compelled me to eat and drink coarsely also.
- Shall I not have intelligence with the earth? Am I not partly leaves and vegetable mould myself.
- He who distinguishes the true savor of his food can never be a glutton; he who does not cannot be otherwise.
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