“Many seed savers see themselves as stewards, not only of their own family memories but of the shared stories and genetic codes contained within these plants. This kind of recollection works against collective forgetting and the widespread disappearance of so many agricultural plants and animals. Old localized, traditional varieties of plants and animals fell (or were pushed) out of everyday use as agriculture became increasingly large scale, industrialized, and standardized, relying on ever fewer varieties in order to achieve the high levels of uniformity and predictability expected not only by stockholders but also by grocery store shoppers. The loss of biodiversity also means a broader form of forgetting.”
Source: Edible Memory: The Lure of Heirloom Tomatoes and Other Forgotten Foods
“While this book focuses on the heirloom food movement, I argue that edible memory is far more expansive than simply the way people treat old-fashioned tomatoes or apples. Based on my observations, edible memory is something people enact with regard to a whole range of foods--including some of the most highly processed foods around. The heirloom varieties I focus on in most of this book are a particularly charged site of the intersections of food, memory, and meaning, but they serve as one rich example of a much larger process.”
Source: Edible Memory: The Lure of Heirloom Tomatoes and Other Forgotten Foods
“They wanted me to forget that there had been other songs, hands and hearts.”
Source: The Sunset Emperor
“Nothing was better for forgetting than making plans.”
Source: Get ’em Young, Treat ’em Tough, Tell ’em Nothing
“one must forget the past—more accurately, one must remember the necessity of forgetting.”
Source: Year 1: A Philosophical Recounting
“The mind forgets,” he told me, “but the body doesn’t.”
Source: The Community: A Funny and Disturbing Conspiracy Mystery Novel
“We must forget what they said if it causes us to forget who we are.”
“A treacherous cycle of forgetting. Still, when she says, "next time, we'll have more time to hang out", I know she means to say, "I'll continue to miss you far longer than I've known you",”
Source: October Defined: an anthology of verse
“Memories are short. It is the forgetting that I fear.”
“les livres sont faits pour ça, nous empêcher d'oublier.”
Source: L'Amour après