“Mortifying the deeds of the body cannot be understood of the religious deeds of the body, for they are to be cherished, nor of the natural deeds of the body such as eating and drinking; but it refers to the sinful actions that are done by the body arising from the temptations and injections of Satan or the corrupt dictates of our own sinful heart.” HeartDoneBodyActionNaturalReligiousEatingUnderstoodDrinkingDeedsTemptationSatanInjectionEating And Drinking Author:Christopher Love
“In I Praise My Destroyer, Diane Ackerman demonstrates once again her love for the specific language that rises from the juncture of self and the natural world, and her skillful use of that language. Whether she turns her attention to the act of eating an apricot 'the color of shame and dawn,' or to 'the omnipotence of light,' or to grief when 'All the greens of summer have blown apart,' her linking of unique images, her energetic wit and whimsy, her compassionate investment in life, always bring new pleasures and perceptions to the reader.” WorldSelfUseLightTurnsLanguageNaturalPleasureGriefAttentionColorReaderPerceptionEatingSummerUniquePraiseShameInvestmentWitDawnCompassionateNatural WorldEnergeticSkillfulDestroyersOmnipotenceWhimsyJunctureApricots Author:Pattiann Rogers
“A natural historian is somebody who looks at something in terms of its relationship to the rest of the natural world. You look at things ecologically. When you see a cow on a feedlot, you don't just see a cow; you see a cow that is eating certain food. You follow that food and that food takes you back to a corn field.” WorldLooksCertainTermNaturalFieldsEatingHistorianCowsCornNatural World Author:Michael Pollan
“People forget that eating represents their most profound engagement with the natural world. Through agriculture is how we change the world, more than anything else we do.” PeopleWorldNaturalForgetEatingProfoundChanging The WorldEngagementAgricultureNatural World Author:Michael Pollan
“For Aliki Barnstone, poetry seems a natural medium. The vision and cadences of these poems suggest a sensibility for which poetry is as inevitable as breathing or eating.” SeemsNaturalVisionEatingMediumsInevitableBreathingPoetry IsSensibilityCadence Author:Robert Pinsky