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“Oh thrice and four times happy... those who plant cabbages.”

Four Food Cooking Plant Culinary Cabbage Thrice

Author:Francois Rabelais

“Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants.”

Too Much Food Eating Plant Diets Dieting Plants And Animals Healthy Eating Eating Food Food And Eating Health Food Real Food Eating Well Eating Healthy Food Slow Food

Book:In Defence of Food: The Myth of Nutrition and the Pleasures of Eating

Source: In Defence of Food: The Myth of Nutrition and the Pleasures of Eating

“If there were only turnips and potatoes in the world, someone would complain that plants grow the wrong way.”

Ifs World Way Grows Food Plant Complaining Culinary Potatoes Wrong Way Turnips

Author:Georg C. Lichtenberg

“Plant a radish, get a radish, never any doubt. That's why I love vegetables, you know what they're about!”

Knows Doubt Food Cooking Plant Culinary Vegetables Funny Inspirational Radishes

Book:The Fantasticks

Source: The Fantasticks

“I am a hardened and shameless tea drinker, who has, for twenty years, diluted his meals with only the infusion of this fascinating plant; whose kettle has scarcely time to cool; who with tea amuses the evening, with tea solaces the midnight, and, with tea, welcomes the morning.”

Years Morning Food Twenties Plant Evening Tea Meals Fascinating Midnight Solace Drinkers Hardened Shameless Kettles Infusion Tea Time Tea Drinking

Author:Samuel Johnson

“The Infusion of a China plant sweetened with the pith of an Indian Cane.”

Food Cooking Plant China Tea Indian Culinary Infusion

Book:The Works of the Right Honourable Joseph Addison: The Tatler and Spectator [no. 1-160

Source: The Works of the Right Honourable Joseph Addison: The Tatler and Spectator [no. 1-160

“In the next ten years, one of the things you're bound to hear is that animal protein is one of the most toxic nutrients of all that can be considered. Quite simply, the more you substitute plant foods for animal foods, the healthier you are likely to be.”

Years Next Animal Food Health Ten Plant Bounds Substitutes Vegetarian Toxic Nutrition Protein Nutrients Healthy Eating Biochemistry Year One Animal Food

Author:T. Colin Campbell

“All experience is a drug experience. Whether it's mediated by our own [endogenous] drugs, or whether it's mediated by substances that we ingest that are found in plants, cognition, consciousness, the working of the brain, it's all a chemically mediated process. Life itself is a drug experience.”

Life Science Found Process Brain Consciousness Food Drug Eating Experience Plant Substance Biology Chemistry Cognition Mediation Biochemistry Pharmacology Body Chemistry

Author:Dennis McKenna

“Some people think plant-based diet, whole foods diet is extreme. Half a million people a year will have their chests opened up and a vein taken from their leg and sewn onto their coronary artery. Some people would call that extreme.”

People Thinking Years Whole Half Millions Taken Food Plant Extremes Legs Diets Chests Physicians Veins Healthy Eating Arteries Plant Based Diet Whole Foods Heart Surgery Cardiologist

Author:Caldwell Esselstyn

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

Source: Essays

“Since, during storms, flames leap from the humid vapors and dark clouds emit deafening noises, is it surprising the lightning, when it strikes the ground, gives rise to truffles, which do not resemble plants?”

Giving Dark Food Plant Clouds Storm Strikes Noise Flames Leap Surprising Lightning Vapor Dark Clouds Truffles

Author:Plutarch

“Of plants tomatoes seemed the most human, eager and fragile and prone to rot.”

Humans Food Plant Fragile Tomatoes

Book:The Witches of Eastwick: A Novel

Source: The Witches of Eastwick: A Novel