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“In general, mankind, since the improvement of cookery, eats twice as much as nature requires.”

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Author:Benjamin Franklin

“One must ask children and birds how cherries and strawberries taste.”

Children Humanity Asks Nature Animal Food Taste Summer Bird Cherries Strawberries Inner Child Children Playing Sea Birds

Author:Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe.”

Source: Cosmos

“Nature shrinks as capital grows. The growth of the market cannot solve the very crisis it creates.”

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Book:Ecofeminism

Source: Ecofeminism

“The garden suggests there might be a place where we can meet nature halfway.”

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Book:Second Nature: A Gardener's Education

Source: Second Nature: A Gardener's Education

“When the last tree is cut, the last fish is caught, and the last river is polluted; when to breathe the air is sickening, you will realize, too late, that wealth is not in bank accounts and that you can't eat money.”

“And to use something as elegant as a tree? Imagine this design assignment: Design something that makes oxygen, sequesters carbon, fixes nitrogen, distills water, makes complex sugars and foods, changes colors with the seasons, and self-replicates. and then why don't we knock that down and write on it?”

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Author:William McDonough

“Slow Food unites the pleasure of food with responsibility, sustainability and harmony with nature.”

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Author:Carlo Petrini

“Peace begins in the kitchens and pantries, gardens and backyards, where our food is grown and prepared. The energies of nature and the infinite universe are absorbed through the foods we eat and are transmuted into our thoughts and actions.”

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Author:Michio Kushi

“The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn.”

Source: Essays

“The sky is the daily bread of the eyes.”

Source: Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks: 1841-1843

“At first people ate simply because they were alive and because food was tasty. Modern people have come to think that if they do not prepare food with elaborate seasonings, the meal will be tasteless. If you do not try to make food delicious, you will find that nature has made it so.”

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Book:The One-Straw Revolution

Source: The One-Straw Revolution

“To respect what one eats is to respect the self.”

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Book:The Magic of Nature: Meditations & Spells to Find Your Inner Voice

Source: The Magic of Nature: Meditations & Spells to Find Your Inner Voice