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- American farmers produced 600 more calories per person per day in 2000 than they did in 1980. But some calories got cheaper than others: Since…
- I made the unexpected but happy discovery that the answer to several of the questions that most occupied me was in fact one and the…
- Most of the time pests and disease are just nature's way of telling the farmer he's doing something wrong.
- Most important thing about your diet is who cooks it, a human or a corporation.
- In 2008, a year of supposed 'food crisis', we grew enough food to feed 11 billion people. Most of it was not eaten by humans…
- Cooking might be the most important factor in fixing our public health crisis. It's the single most important thing you can do for your health.
- Measured against the Problem We Face, planting a garden sounds pretty benign, I know, but in fact it's one of the most powerful things an…
- What the Soviet Union was to the ideology of Marxism, the Low-Fat Campaign is to the ideology of nutritionism—its supreme test and, as now is…
- Of the seven deadly sins, surely it is pride that most commonly afflicts the gardener.
- ... the way we eat represents our most profound engagement with the natural world. Daily, our eating turns nature into culture, transforming the body of…
- Not everyone can afford to eat well in America, which is a literal shame, but most of us can: Americans spend less than 10 percent…
- More grass means less forest; more forest less grass. But either-or is a construction more deeply woven into our culture than into nature, where even…
- Organic Oreos are not a health food. When Coca-Cola begins selling organic Coke, as it surely will, the company will have struck a blow for…
- This for many people is what is most offensive about hunting—to some, disgusting: that it encourages, or allows, us not only to kill but to…
- This, for many people, is what's most offensive about hunting—to some, disgusting: that it encourages, or allows, us not only to kill but to take…
More Most Quotes
- The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be good or evil. — Hannah Arendt
- The most radical revolutionary will become a conservative the day after the revolution. — Hannah Arendt
- No cause is left but the most ancient of all, the one, in fact, that from the beginning of our history has… — Hannah Arendt
- The most perfect political community is one in which the middle class is in control, and outnumbers both of the other classes. — Aristotle
- Character may almost be called the most effective means of persuasion. — Aristotle
- The greatest virtues are those which are most useful to other persons. — Aristotle
- Of all the varieties of virtues, liberalism is the most beloved. — Aristotle
- For as the eyes of bats are to the blaze of day, so is the reason in our soul to the things… — Aristotle
- Most people would rather give than get affection. — Aristotle
- What the statesman is most anxious to produce is a certain moral character in his fellow citizens, namely a disposition to virtue… — Aristotle
- My mother is the coolest, most amazing person I know. — J. J. Abrams
- The most deeply personal of my works are the non-fiction works, the autobiographical works, because there, I'm talking about myself very directly. — Paul Auster