Brendan Flood

“the authority that is seized by violence, not that given by votes, harms republics.”
― Niccolò Machiavelli

“Shake the hand that feeds you.”
― Michael Pollan, In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto

“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. ”
― Michael Pollan, The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals

“When chickens get to live like chickens, they'll taste like chickens, too.”
― Michael Pollan, The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals