All the creatures on the planet today share a huge number of genetic ideas. Most of my genes are like most gorilla genes, but they're also like many of the genes in a mushroom. I have more genes than a mushroom, to be sure, and some critical genes are certainly different, but the important piece to take in here is our deep interrelatedness . . . with the rest of the living world. —Ursula Goodenough More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
I don't think I can learn from a wild animal how to live in particular . . . but I might learn something of mindlessness, something of the purity of living in the physical senses and the dignity of living without bias or motive. —Annie Dillard More about this quote Tags: purity wildness Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Such things . . . as the grasp of a child's hand in your own, the flavor of an apple, the embrace of a friend or a lover, the silk of a girl's thigh, the sunlight on rock and leaves, the feel of music, the bark of a tree, the abrasion of granite and sand, the plunge of clear water into a pool, the face of the wind — what else is there? What else do we need? —Edward Abbey More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
It's a popular fact that 90 percent of the brain is not used and, like most popular facts, it is wrong. . . . It is used. One of its functions is to make the miraculous seem ordinary, to turn the unusual into the usual. Otherwise, human beings, faced with the daily wondrousness of everything, would go around wearing a stupid grin, saying, "Wow," a lot. Part of the brain exists to stop this from happening. It is very efficient, and can make people experience boredom in the middle of marvels. —Terry Pratchett More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Life itself is the proper binge. —Julia Child More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
When I was four years old, my mother used to bring me a cookie every time she came home from the market. I always went to the front yard and took my time eating it, sometimes half an hour or forty-five minutes for one cookie. I would take a small bite and look up at the sky. Then I would touch the dog with my feet and take another small bite. . . . I was entirely in the present moment, with my cookie, the dog, the bamboo thickets, the cat, and everything. . . . It is possible to eat our meals as slowly and joyfully as I ate the cookie of my childhood. —Thích Nhất Hạnh More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
I don't even butter my bread. I consider that cooking. —Katherine Cebrian More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
A first-rate soup is more creative than a second-rate painting. —Abraham Maslow More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
One of the very nicest things about life is the way we must regularly stop whatever it is we are doing and devote our attention to eating. —Luciano Pavarotti More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Once a man had thrust his hands into the soil and knew the grit of it between his teeth, he felt something rise within him that was not of his day or generation, but had persisted through birth and death from a time beyond recall. —Martha Ostenso More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
If you would be happy for a week, take a wife; if you would be happy for a month, kill your pig; but if you would be happy all your life, plant a garden. —Chinese saying More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
A: Nonsense! . . . You may talk of not killing, but can you possibly avoid killing? What would you eat? Potatoes? . . . Has the potato no life? . . . You want to drink water? Examine a drop of water under a microscope and see how many millions of lives there are. You must breathe to live, yet with every breath you kill millions of creatures. Do you see any harm in that? You think you will lose your religion if you take a little fish. Such arguments are foolish. The ancient Hindus held no such ideas. —Swami Brahmananda More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Q: Should we avoid eating meat, since it entails killing? —Unknown More about this quote Tags: killing vegetarianism meat Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The time will come when men . . . will look on the murder of animals as they now look on the murder of men. —Leonardo da Vinci More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The basic premise of vegetarianism is that humans have no business killing sentient beings for food. The person who argues, "What if I were stranded on a desert island?" or "What if I were an Eskimo?" is invariably nowhere near an abandoned isle or an Arctic igloo. —Victoria Moran More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email