Fred Provenza > Quotes

“Chlorophyll absorbs violet, indigo, blue, orange, and red light, most yellow, but hardly any green light, so green light gets reflected back to our eyes, which is why leaves look green.”
― Fred Provenza, Nourishment: What Animals Can Teach Us about Rediscovering Our Nutritional Wisdom

“When chemists learn about and create organic compounds, we consider that an act of high intelligence, as any student who has taken organic chemistry will attest. What should we think, then, when a pasque flower fashions complex kinds and mixtures of compounds?”
― Fred Provenza, Nourishment: What Animals Can Teach Us about Rediscovering Our Nutritional Wisdom