Ralph waldo Quote by Michael Pollan

“You have just dined,” Emerson once wrote, “and however scrupulously the slaughterhouse is concealed in the graceful distance of miles, there is complicity.”

— Michael Pollan

“Every Hero Becomes a Bore at last." Ralph Waldo Emerson”

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