Basil Quote by Grant George

“When I was nineteen years old, I discovered a collection of books in the Harvard library written by Jacob Boehme. Do you know of…

— Elizabeth Gilbert

Finally the herbs come around. The high grade where man a look for me. Stock it by the pound, yeah. When Babylon a come…

— Collie Buddz

Herbs are the friend of the physician and the pride of cooks.

— Charlemagne

In the middle ages, people took potions for their ailments. In the 19th century they took snake oil. Citizens of today's shiny, technological age…

— Charles Krauthammer

The herbalist I met a few times - it was great - she gave me literature about the different processes that an herbalist would…

— Caitriona Balfe

The famous herbalist Samuel Thompson used two herbs mainly, cayenne & lobelia. And with those two herbs, it is estimated he helped 3.5 million…

— Richard M. Schulze

“These women with their feminine wisdom had always been suspect to men. They knew potions and herbs; they touched women in indecent spots; and…

— Oliver Pötzsch

“She was made after the time of ribs and mud. By papal decree there were to be no more people born of the ground…

— Salvador Plascencia

“Witches and sorcerers cultivated plants with the power to "cast spells" -- in our vocabulary, "psychoactive" plants. Their potion recipes called for such things…

— Michael Pollan

The peoples of the Mediterranean began to emerge from barbarism when they learned to cultivate the olive and the vine.

— Thucydides

“The Romans eat much Garlic and the Hungarians more while in the Markets of Sidon lovelorn Men pay Ransoms for a Jelly dusted with…

— Lawrence Norfolk

“it may be worth while to note again how often finely developed skulls are discovered in the graveyards of old monasteries, and how likely…

— John Beddoe