Behavior Quote by Steven Pinker

“Fermentation and sprouting are crucial for one simple reason: Plants didn’t evolve with the idea that they should be good to eat. In fact,…

— Catherine Shanahan

“As soon as plants began to be eaten by animals for the first time - way back in prehistory, before the first human took…

— Johann Hari

“Quite simply, plants don’t want to be eaten—and who can blame them? Like any living thing, their instinct is to propagate the next generation…

— Steven R. Gundry

Plants are both friend and enemy, source of health and, in certain instances, triggers of disease.

— Steven Gundry

Our attitude towards plants is a singularly narrow one. If we see any immediate utility in a plant we foster it. If for any…

— Rachel Carson

“Plants do not attack with their poison and spine as humans do.They only defend.”

— tspkumar

As humans, we do get to choose what we eat, and when we choose to eat a plant, we are eating (i.e., harming) just…

— Sharon Gannon

“[from an entry by her daughter Camille] If nobody is spritzing chemicals on the predators, all a plant can do is toughen up by…

— Barbara Kingsolver

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

Science confounds everything; it gives to the flowers an animal appetite, and takes away from even the plants their chastity.

— Joseph Joubert

Most of the plants grown to be fed to farm animals are heavily saturated with pesticides and herbicides and have been genetically modified, all…

— Sharon Gannon

Sooner or later every gardener must face the fact that certain things are going to die on him. It is a temptation to be…

— Eleanor Perenyi