Jay Colingham

“Without virtue, man is most unholy and savage, and worst in regard to sex and eating.”
― Aristotle

“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

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

“We cannot but pity the boy who has never fired a gun,”
― Henry David Thoreau, Walden or, Life in the Woods