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Food Quotes by Wendell Berry
- To be interested in food but not in food production is clearly absurd.
- Urban conservationists may feel entitled to be unconcerned about food production because they are not farmers. But they can't be let off so easily, for…
- A significant part of the pleasure of eating is in one’s accurate consciousness of the lives and the world from which food comes.
- They will grow, deliver, and cook your food for you and (just like your mother) beg you to eat it. That they do not yet…
- It is, of course, one of the miracles of science that the germs that used to be in our food have been replaced by poisons.
- Eating is an agricultural act. Eating ends the annual drama of the food economy that begins with planting and birth. Most eaters, however, are no…
- We need to confront honestly the issue of scale... You may need a large corporation to run an airline or to manufacture cars, but you…
- The securest guarantee of the long-term good health of both farmland and city is, I believe, locally produced food.
- The economy is still substantially that of the fur trade, still based on the same general kinds of commercial items: technology, weapons, ornaments, novelties, and…
- If in the human economy, a squash in the field is worth more than a bushel of soil, that does not mean that food is…
- That we should have an agriculture based as much on petroleum as the soil-that we need petroleum exactly as much as we need food and…
- The consumer wants food to be as cheap as possible. The producer wants it to be as expensive as possible. Both want it to involve…
- The passive American consumer, sitting down to a meal of pre-prepared food, confronts inert, anonymous substances that have been processed, dyed, breaded, sauced, gravied, ground,…
- What could be more superstitious than the idea that money brings forth food?
- Eating with the fullest pleasure - pleasure, that is, that does not depend on ignorance - is perhaps the profoundest enactment of our connection with…
- Odd as I am sure it will appear to some, I can think of no better form of personal involvement in the cure of the…
- To live, we must daily break the body and shed the blood of Creation. When we do this knowingly, lovingly, skillfully, reverently, it is a…
- We still (sometimes) remember that we cannot be free if our minds and voices are controlled by someone else. But we have neglected to understand…
- The pleasure of eating should be an extensive pleasure, not that of the mere gourmet. People who know the garden in which their vegetables have…
- People are fed by the food industry, which pays no attention to health, and are treated by the health industry, which pays no attention to…
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- I grew up playing music and enjoying good food, friends and family in my own backyard. — Rodney Atkins
- I tell my students, it's not difficult to identify with somebody like yourself, somebody next door who looks like you. What's more… — Chinua Achebe
- It's coming home to roost over the next 50 years or so. It's not just climate change; it's sheer space, places to… — David Attenborough
- Some bioengineering is good, especially if it results in plants that are more drought-resistant or perennial food crops. — Margaret Atwood
- What the mass media offers is not popular art, but entertainment which is intended to be consumed like food, forgotten, and replaced… — Wystan Hugh Auden
- As people flock to urban centers where ground space is limited, cities with green walls and roofs and skyscraper farms offer improved… — Diane Ackerman
- Man seeks to change the foods available in nature to suit his tastes, thereby putting an end to the very essence of… — Sai Baba
- Acorns were good until bread was found. — Francis Bacon
- The secret of staying young is to live honestly, eat slowly, and lie about your age. — Lucille Ball
- Cats are very independent animals. They're very sexy, if you want. Dogs are different. They're familiar. They're obedient. You call a cat,… — Antonio Banderas
- I love food and feel that it is something that should be enjoyed. I eat whatever I want. I just don't overeat. — Tyra Banks