Marvel Airth

“The man who has never desired or experienced anything base and bad is not a man of restraint, because he has never had to master anything to compose himself.”
― Robin Waterfield, The First Philosophers: The Presocratics and Sophists

“The train ran on without a driver, on and on, like some mindless, unseeing beast...”
― Émile Zola

“When you're cooking with food as alive as this -- these gorgeous and semigorgeous fruits and leaves and flesh -- you're in no danger of mistaking it for a commodity, or a fuel, or a collection of chemical nutrients. No, in the eye of the cook or the gardener ... this food reveals itself for what it is: no mere thing but a web of relationships among a great many living beings, some of them human, some not, but each of them dependent on each other, and all of them ultimately rooted in soil and nourished by sunlight.”
― Michael Pollan, In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto

“Silence is safe.”
― Wilkie Collins, The Woman in White