Nature of man Quote by John Lewis-Stempel

“Köves always found it ironic that humans, despite being God’s most sublime creation, were still just animals at the core, their behavior driven to…

— Dan Brown

“The repugnance to animal food is not the effect of experience, but it is instinct.”

— Henry David Thoreau

Amazingly, we take for granted that instinct for survival, fear of death, must separate us from the happiness of pure and uninterpreted experience, in…

— Peter Matthiessen

“It is, I concluded, a side effect of this kind of food, one that's handed down from one generation to another, often in conditions…

— Bill Buford

“...the more a human creature has tasted of bitter things the more it hungers after the sweet things of life. And we, wrapped round…

— Maxim Gorky

“We were given appetites, not to consume the world and forget it, but to taste its goodness and hunger to make it great. That…

— Robert Farrar Capon

Perhaps that is part of the animals' role among us, to awaken humility, to turn our minds back to the mystery of things, and…

— Matthew Scully

We know there is a deep reservoir of food wisdom out there, or else humans would not have survived to the extent we have.…

— Michael Pollan

“Eating connects us to our histories as much as it connects our souls to our bodies, our bodies to the earth.”

— Evan D.G. Fraser

“…Homo sapiens doesn’t seem able to cut himself off at the supply end. He’s one of the few species that doesn’t limit reproduction in…

— Margaret Atwood

Intellectually, human beings and animals may be different, but it's pretty obvious that animals have a rich emotional life and that they feel joy…

— Moby

“By shortening the intestines and decreasing their energy consumption, cooking inadvertently opened the way to the jumbo brains of Neanderthals and Sapiens.”

— Yuval Noah Harari