Stephen Orr

“As a useful herb, however, pungent sage lives up to its common name, which derives from the Latin sapere—to taste, have good taste, or be wise. It must be no accident that old herbals abound with stories of elderly people of such a great age that no one knows when they were born. Naturally, their gardens were said to be filled with sage.”
― Stephen Orr, The New American Herbal: An Herb Gardening Book