“There ARE people who won't customarily eat an entire row of cookies, or hear food calling their name from other rooms, or who don't grind up food in the garbage disposal for fear of eating it, or get it back out of the garbage so they could eat it. Of course, my binge eating was just a cover-up for the larger issue: Trying to fill the emptiness” PeopleTryingCoursesNamesRoomsIssuesCallingEatingEmptinessGarbageCookiesGrindCover UpsBingeBinge EatingGarbage Disposal Author:Sark
“The practice of Zen is to eat, breathe, cook, carry water, and scrub the toilet — to infuse every act of body, speech, and mind — with mindfulness, to illuminate every leaf and pebble, every heap of garbage, every path that leads to our mind's return home.” MindHomeBodyWaterPracticePathReturnSpeechMindfulnessEatingBreatheCooksLeafsGarbageToiletsPebbles Book:Fragrant Palm Leaves: Journals, 1962-1966 Source: Fragrant Palm Leaves: Journals, 1962-1966
“When you're missing your two front teeth, that's honesty. That is a door to your oral history. You're not covering anything up. You're saying, 'Hey world, I'm missing my front teeth. I'm gross; I'm dirty; I'm poor. I clearly have no problem with public urination and eating garbage. Don't come near me, I'll gum you to death!” WorldTwoProblemPoorDoorsMissingFrontsHonestyEatingTeethHeyDirtyNo ProblemGrossGarbageCoveringGumOral History Author:Iliza Shlesinger
“I don't enjoy cooking when I'm high. And I don't want to be eating garbage because then I'll feel gross.” WantFeelsEnjoyEatingCookingGrossGarbage Author:Ilana Glazer
“And so in 1975, the grizzly bear was put on, as I said - on the endangered species list as threatened. And new measures were taken, for instance, bear-proofing garbage, creating new regulations to - essentially to try and keep people and people's food away from the bears, let the bears adjust to eating the abundant wild food that's available in Yellowstone and allow them to be more wild, to be independent of humans as sources of foods for the good of both sides. And that has been quite successful.” PeopleTryingHumansHas BeensSaidSidesSuccessfulTakenSourceBearsEatingCreatingIndependentSpeciesAvailableListsInstanceRegulationThreatenedBoth SidesGarbageEndangered SpeciesGrizzliesYellowstoneGrizzly Bears Author:David Quammen
“Would the last animal, eating garbage and living on the last scrap of land, his mate dead, would he still forgive you?” StillsLastsAnimalLandEatingForgivingMatesGarbageLiving OnScrap Book:Light Action in the Caribbean: Stories Source: Light Action in the Caribbean: Stories
“"Clear-cutting" was the word for what the Rusties had done to the old forests: felling every tree, killing every living thing, turning entire countries into grazing land. Whole rain forests had been consumed, reduced from millions of interlocking species to a bunch of cows eating grass, a vast web of life traded for cheap hamburgers. "Look, we're not clear-cutting. All we're doing is pulling out the garbage that the Rusties left behind,” David said. "It just takes a little surgery to do it."” LooksLittlesSaidCountryDoneWholeLeftMillionsClearCuttingTreeLandEatingRainSpeciesKillingBunchForestsGrassCowsPullingSurgeryGarbageConsumedLiving ThingsHamburgersGrazingWeb Of LifeClear Cutting Author:Scott Westerfeld