

“The single greatest lesson the garden teaches is that our relationship to the planet need not be zero-sum, and that as long as the sun still shines and people still can plan and plant, think and do, we can, if we bother to try, find ways to provide for ourselves without diminishing the world. ”
― The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals
― The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals

“What an extraordinary achievement for a civilization: to have developed the one diet that reliably makes its people sick!”
― Food Rules: An Eater's Manual
― Food Rules: An Eater's Manual

“Don't eat anything incapable of rotting.”
― In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto
― In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto

“So that's us: processed corn, walking.”
― The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals
― The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals
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