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“Out of the thirty thousand types of edible plants thought to exist on Earth, just eleven—corn, rice, wheat, potatoes, cassava, sorghum, millet, beans, barley,…

— Bill Bryson

Out of the thirty thousand types of edible plants thought to exist on Earth, just eleven—corn, rice, wheat, potatoes, cassava, sorghum, millet, beans, barley,…

— Bill Bryson

The human diet consists of just nine plants: corn, rice, wheat, potatoes, cassava, sorghum, millet, beans, barley, rye and oats.

— Bill Bryson

“Even today, with all our advanced technologies, more than 90 per cent of the calories that feed humanity come from the handful of plants…

— Yuval Noah Harari

I'm in the woods so much I can tell you which plants are edible.

— Lee Trevino

“According to Indian crop ecologist Vandana Shiva, humans have eaten some 80,000 plant species in our history. After recent precipitous changes, three-quarters of all…

— Barbara Kingsolver

“A hundred years ago, all food was organic, local, seasonal, and fresh or naturally preserved by ancient methods. All food was food. Now, less…

— James Colquhoun

If we want to consider the sanctity of life in deciding what to eat, the choice is clear. Eating a plant based diet causes…

— Sharon Gannon

“Health provides an important final reason to adopt a plant-based diet. Westerners are choking their arteries, fattening themselves up, and fostering cancers by consuming…

— Lisa Kemmerer

“The culprits were a handful of plant species, including wheat, rice and potatoes. These plants domesticated Homo sapiens, rather than vice versa.”

— Yuval Noah Harari

It was very important thousands of years ago to categorize things. I can eat that plant, I can't eat that plant. Or this tribe,…

— Keegan-Michael Key

Plants are tricky. Many are edible, but one false mouthful and your dead

— Suzanne Collins