Jay Colingham

“Experiences that banish irony are much better for living than for writing.”
― Michael Pollan, The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals

“I like to be able to open a can of stock and I like to talk about politics, or the movies, at the dinner table sometimes instead of food.”
― Michael Pollan, The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals

“happy life and merciful death”
― Jeremy Bentham

“Civilization has so cluttered this elemental man-earth relationship with gadgets and middlemen that awareness of it is growing dim. We fancy that industry supports us, forgetting what supports industry.”
― Aldo Leopold, A Sand County Almanac and Sketches Here and There