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“My happiest hours are those in which I think nothing, want nothing, when I do not even dream, but lose myself in some spurious vegetable torpor, moss growing on the surface of life. Without a trace of bitterness I savour my absurd awareness of being nothing, a mere foretaste of death and extinction.”

Thinking Want Dream Hours Loses Growing Awareness Mere Surface Absurd Bitterness Vegetables Extinction Moss Savour Without A Trace

Book:The Book of Disquiet

Source: The Book of Disquiet

“Leave home, leave the country, leave the familiar. Only then can routine experience--buying bread, eating vegetables, even saying hello--become new all over again.”

Country Home Eating Bread Familiar Buying Routine Vegetables Hello Saying Hello

Book:Four Seasons in Rome: On Twins, Insomnia, and the Biggest Funeral in the History of the World

Source: Four Seasons in Rome: On Twins, Insomnia, and the Biggest Funeral in the History of the World

“Beer drinkers have been duped by mass marketing into the belief that it makes sense to drink only one brand of beer. In truth, brand loyalty in beer makes no more sense than 'vegetable loyalty' in food. Can you imagine it? “No thanks, I'll pass on the mashed potatoes, carrots, bread and roast beef. Me, I'm strictly a broccoli man.'”

“The world of imagination is the world of eternity. It is the divine bosom into which we shall all go after the death of the vegetated [i.e. mortal] body. This world of imagination is infinite and eternal, whereas the world of generation is finite and temporal. There exist in that eternal world the eternal realities of everything which we see reflected in this vegetable glass of nature.”

World Body Reality Imagination Generations This World Divine Eternal Eternity Infinite Glasses Mortals Vegetables Finite Bosoms

Author:William Blake

“Bread is the king of the table and all else is merely the court that surrounds the king. The countries are the soup, the meat, the vegetables, the salad, but bread is king.”

Country Food Kings Tables Cooking Court Bread Meat Culinary Surround Vegetables Soup Salad

Author:Louis Bromfield

“You are Life passing through your body, passing through your mind, passing through your soul. Once you find that out, not with logic, not with the intellect, but because you can feel that Life-you find out that you are the force that makes the flowers open and close, that makes the hummingbird fly from flower to flower. You find out that you are in every tree, and you are in every animal, vegetable, and rock. You are that force that moves the wind and breathes through your body. The whole universe is a living being that is moved by that force, and that is what you are. You are Life.”

“Whether you bathe in the Ganga for a thousand years or live on vegetable food for a like period, unless it helps towards the manifestation of the Self, know that it is all of no use.”

Knows Years Self Helping Use Periods Thousand Manifestation Vegetables Thousand Years

Book:Swamiji's Message to a Disciple: Reprint from the Talks with Swami Vivekananda

Source: Swamiji's Message to a Disciple: Reprint from the Talks with Swami Vivekananda

“Mom is losing, no doubt, because our vegetables have come to lack two features of interest: nutrition and flavor. Storage and transport take predictable tolls on the volatile plant compounds that subtly add up to taste and food value. Breeding to increase shelf life also has tended to decrease palatability. Bizarre as it seems, we've accepted a tradeoff that amounts to: "Give me every vegetable in every season, even if it tastes like a cardboard picture of its former self."”

Source: Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: Our Year of Seasonal Eating

“A gluten-free diet still allows you access to almost every fruit and vegetable, a variety of grains and legumes, your pick of dairy products, fresh meats and fish and a whole slew of special gluten-free delights to satisfy your pretzel-bagel-muffin-doughnut craving.”

“If a man loses one-third of his skin he dies; if a tree loses one-third of its bark, it too dies. If the Earth is a 'sentient being', would it not be reasonable to expect that if it loses one-third of its trees and vegetable covering, it will also die?”

Ifs Men Earth Dies Loses Tree Skins Thirds Reasonable Vegetables Covering Bark Sentient Beings

Author:Richard St. Barbe Baker

“The first gatherings of the garden in May of salads, radishes and herbs made me feel like a mother about her baby - how could anything so beautiful be mine. And this emotion of wonder filled me for each vegetable as it was gathered every year. There is nothing that is comparable to it, as satisfactory or as thrilling, as gathering the vegetables one has grown.”

Feels Years Firsts May Made Beautiful Mother Emotion Wonder Mines Baby Garden Filled Vegetables Gathering Thrilling Herbs Salad Like A Mother Radishes

Author:Alice B. Toklas

“Both sides of my family had come from Ireland in the 19th century for the same reason: There was nothing to eat over there. Since then, I've tried to make up for the potato famine by making the potato the only vegetable that passes these lips.”

Reason Sides Century My Family Lips Vegetables Ireland Both Sides Potatoes Famine 19th Century Potato Famine

Author:Art Donovan

“Our vegetable garden is coming along well, with radishes and beans up, and we are less worried about revolution that we used to be.”

Wells Used Revolution Garden Used To Be Worried Vegetables Beans Vegetable Garden Radishes

Author:E. B. White

“Interesting, he later reflected, was perhaps not the correct word.By the time he and Henry arrived back at the house for their midday meal-a scrumptious bowl of hot, sticky porridge-he had mucked out the stable stalls, milked a cow, been pecked by three separate hens, weeded a vegetable garden, and fallen into a trough.”

Three House Interesting Garden Hot Fallen Meals Vegetables Cows Stable Bowls Hens Sticky Porridge Trough Vegetable Garden

Author:Julia Quinn

“It's more important that you eat vegetables, even if they are conventional -- I'm talking about for your health -- then it is until you wait until you can afford organic, or you can find organic.”

Ifs Important Waiting Talking Vegetables Conventional

Author:Michael Pollan

“Each year the big garden grew smaller and Jane - who grew flowers by choice, not corn or stringbeans - worked at the vegetables more than I did. Each winter I dreamed crops, dreamed marvels of canning . . . and each summer I largely failed. Shamefaced, I planted no garden at all.”

Years Bigs Choices Flower Failure Grew Summer Garden Winter Vegetables Jane Corn Crops Canning

Book:Life Work

Source: Life Work

“If my wife made childhood obesity her mission and I signed a law making 1/8 cup of tomato paste a vegetable, I'd be sleeping on the sofa.”

Ifs Made Law Sleep Wife Childhood Missions My Wife Cups Vegetables Obesity Tomatoes Sofas Childhood Obesity Law Making

Author:Alton Brown

“The strongest animals on earth are plant eaters. Every creature we've enlisted to do the work we couldn't handle - the horse, donkey, elephant, camel, water buffalo, ox, yak - is an herbivore... whose huge muscles were built from plant protein, and whose strong bones got that way, and stayed that way, from grazing on grass and eating other vegetables.”

“The beet is the most intense of vegetables”

Intense Vegetables Frivolity Beets Radishes

Book:Jitterbug Perfume

Source: Jitterbug Perfume

“Refuse to allow yourself to become a vegetable that simply absorbs information, pre-packaged, pre-ideologized , because no message.. is anything but an ideological package that has gone through a kind of processing.”

Kind Gone Information Messages Refuse Vegetables Packages Ideological Processing

Author:Edward Said

“As any gardener will tell you, the cycles of nature require patience...Even a fast-growing vegetable like a radish requires time.”

Growing Patience Cycles Vegetables Gardener Radishes

Author:M. J. Ryan

“We all grew up in communities with grandmothers who cooked two, three vegetables that you had to eat. There was no ifs, ands or buts about it. But that's because many of our grandparents, they had community gardens; there was the vegetable man that came around. There were many other resources that allowed them to have access. So it's not that people don't know or don't want to do the right thing; they just have to have access to the foods that they know will make their families healthier.”

People Ifs Knows Men Want Children Two Three Community Grew Grew Up Resources Garden Access Right Thing Grandmother Vegetables Grandparent Obesity Child Obesity Community Garden

Author:Michelle Obama

“The normal food of man is vegetable.”

Men Normal Vegetables

Author:Charles Darwin

“If your blood is formed from eating the foods I teach [fruits and green-leaf vegetables] your soul will shout for joy and triumph over all misery of life. For the first time you will feel a vibration of vitality through your body (like a slight electric current) that shakes you delightfully.”

“I keep my diet simple by sticking to mostly fruits and vegetables all day and then having whatever I want for dinner. I end up making healthy choices, like sushi or grilled fish, because I feel so good from eating well.”

Want Feels Wells Ends Choices Simple Healthy Eating Fruit Fishes Dinner Diets Vegetables Sushi Fruits And Vegetables Eating Well Healthy Choices

Author:Jennifer Morrison

“I don't drink any coffee or take any drugs and I don't smoke cigarettes and I don't eat sugar and I don't take any medicine at all. I eat a lot of fish, vegetables, and I stay away from starches.”

Drink Drug Medicine Fishes Coffee Smoke Vegetables Sugar Cigarette

Author:Vincent Gallo

“When my mother was raising me, she moved us upstate to the Woodstock area. Our closest neighbor was a mile away. She planted all her own vegetables.”

Mother Areas Moved Neighbor Miles Vegetables Closest Miles Away Woodstock

Author:Debi Mazar

“Right now I'd love to be sitting on a Greek island somewhere because of being Greek American, eating great octopus salad and some fantastic lamb. Or sipping a little ouzo. I think the Mediterranean diet is one of the healthiest... Lots of nuts, vegetables, fruits, fresh fish, lean meats, yogurt.”

Thinking Littles Right Now Eating Sitting Fruit Fishes Fantastic Greek Meat Diets Islands Nuts Vegetables Lambs Salad Yogurt Octopus Sipping Mediterranean Sea Fresh Fish Greek Yogurt

Author:Cat Cora

“My eating is pretty consistent. I like Greek yogurt for breakfast. I eat two giant salads a day, a broiled meat or fish, and a dark green vegetable at every meal.”

Two Dark Eating Green Fishes Greek Meat Meals Giants Consistent Breakfast Vegetables Salad Yogurt Greek Yogurt

Author:Veronica Webb

“Just washed, How chill The white leeks!”

Justice White Vegetables Chill

Author:Matsuo Basho

“The trouble is, you cannot grow just one zucchini. Minutes after you plant a single seed, hundreds of zucchini will barge out of the ground and sprawl around the garden, menacing the other vegetables. At night, you will be able to hear the ground quake as more and more zucchinis erupt.”

Able Night Grows Justice Trouble Minutes Garden Plant Seeds Just One Vegetables Quake Barges Zucchini

Author:Dave Barry

“The hospital that feeds you refined sugar, white bread, canned soup, bouillon cubes, and frozen vegetables should be closed by the health department as a menace to the public health.”

Should Age Dark White Medical Bread Department Hospitals Vegetables Sugar Soup Frozen Dark Ages Refined Menace Public Health Cubes White Bread

Author:David Reuben

“PALM, n. A species of tree . . . of which the familiar "itching palm" ("Palma hominis") is most widely distributed . . . . This noble vegetable exudes a kind of invisible gum, which may be detected by applying to the bark a piece of gold or silver.”

Kind May Pieces Tree Gold Species Noble Invisible Familiar Silver Vegetables Palms Nobility Bark Gum Itching

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Ambrose Bierce (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Ambrose Bierce (Illustrated)

“Vegetables, which are the lowest in the scale of living things, are fed by roots, which, implanted in the native soil, select by the action of a peculiar mechanism, different subjects, which serve to increase and to nourish them.”

Different Action Subjects Roots Increase Scales Soil Native Feds Peculiar Vegetables Mechanism Lowest Living Things Select Different Subjects

Book:The Physyology of Taste

Source: The Physyology of Taste

“On the show, we are not trying to get people to eat their vegetables; we are not trying to get people to become Democrats. We are basically trying to encourage people to get involved with public life so that politics isn't left to the wealthy and privileged.”

People Trying Shows Politics Left Involved Democrat Wealthy Vegetables Privileged Get Involved Public Life

Author:Martin Sheen

“In the night the cabbages catch at the moon, the leaves drip silver, the rows of cabbages are a series of little silver waterfalls in the moon.”

Littles Night Moon Series Silver Vegetables Waterfalls Cabbage

Book:The Complete Poems of Carl Sandburg

Source: The Complete Poems of Carl Sandburg

“Last night we had three small zucchini for dinner that were grown within fifty feet of our back door. I estimate they cost somewhere in the neighborhood of $371.49 each.”

Lasts Night Three Doors Feet Cost Dinner Fifty Neighborhood Vegetables Last Night Back Doors Zucchini

Author:Andy Rooney

“There's no getting blood out of a turnip.”

Blood Vegetables Turnips

Book:Japhet, in Search of a Father ... A new edition

Source: Japhet, in Search of a Father ... A new edition

“In the water bucket a melon and an eggplant nodding to each other”

Water Vegetables Buckets Nodding Melons Eggplant

Author:Yosa Buson

“The best hemp and the best tobacco grow on the same kind of soil. The former article is of the first necessity to the wealth and protection of the country. The latter, never useful.”

Firsts Kind Country Grows Wealth Kindness Protection Former Soil Latter Articles Vegetables Tobacco Hemp

Book:Papers of Thomas Jefferson

Source: Papers of Thomas Jefferson

“Most plants taste better when they've had to suffer a little.”

Littles Suffering Taste Plant Vegetables

Author:Diana Kennedy

“Completely dried up, They've become beans.”

Vegetables Beans

Author:Santoka Taneda

“in my garden I pick a musk melon feeling like a thief”

Feelings Picks Garden Vegetables Thieves Melons Musk

Author:Yosa Buson

“Our family holidays always include our animals. On Thanksgiving, we love to walk around our farm and visit with our rescued pigs, goats, horses, emus and many other rescued animals. We give them all special vegetables that day, and the whole family enjoys a vegetarian Thanksgiving dinner. We know that the animals are giving thanks that day, and we are also giving thanks for the joy they bring to our lives.”

“If there is one vegetable which is God-given, it is the haricot bean.”

Ifs Given Vegetables Beans

Author:Jean-Henri Fabre

“I am better off with vegetables at the bottom of my garden than with all the fairies of the Midsummer Night's Dream.”

Dream Night Garden Bottom Fairy Vegetables Better Off Midsummer Midsummer Night's Dream

Author:Dorothy L. Sayers

“Vegetables when not sufficiently cooked are know to be so exceedingly unwholesome and indigestible, that the custom of serving them 'crisp' should be altogether disregarded when health is considered of more importance than fashion.”

Knows Should Fashion Importance Serving Customs Vegetables Crisps Disregarded

Book:Modern Cookery, in All Its Branches: Reduced to a System of Easy Practice, for the Use of Private Families. In a Series of Receipts, which Have Been Strictly Tested, and are Given with the Most Minute Exactness

Source: Modern Cookery, in All Its Branches: Reduced to a System of Easy Practice, for the Use of Private Families. In a Series of Receipts, which Have Been Strictly Tested, and are Given with the Most Minute Exactness

“Sagebrush is a very fair fuel, but as a vegetable it is a distinguished failure. Nothing can abide the taste of it but the jackass and his illegitimate child the mule.”

Children Taste Fairs Fuel Vegetables Distinguished Mules Jackasses Illegitimate Child

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Mark Twain (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Mark Twain (Illustrated)

“The turnip is a capricious vegetable, which seems reluctant to show itself at its best.”

Shows Seems Food Cooking Culinary Vegetables Reluctant Capricious Turnips

Book:Food

Source: Food

“Oh, my fellow men, do not defile your bodies with sinful foods. We have corn, we have apples bending down the branches with their weight, and grapes swelling on the vines. There are sweet-flavored herbs, and vegetables which can be cooked and softened over the fire, nor are you denied milk or thyme-scented honey. The earth affords a lavish supply of riches, of innocent foods, and offers you banquets that involve no bloodshed or slaughter; only beasts satisfy their hunger with flesh, and not even all of those, because horses, cattle, and sheep live on grass.”