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We know there is a deep reservoir of food wisdom out there, or else humans would not have survived to the extent we have. Much of this food wisdom is worth preserving and reviving and heeding.


Michael Pollan

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RALPH MERKLE Food production has affected the environment more than any other activity humans have engaged in. Hu...
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CHARLES SPURGEON Wisdom is the right use of knowledge. To know is not to be wise. Many men know a great deal, and are...
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THICH NHAT HANH We humans have lost the wisdom of genuinely resting and relaxing. We worry too much. We don't al...
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ARNOLD MONTO We understand each other and the world in our own humane level of understanding witch is not to brig...
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MICHAEL OWEN Genocide is not just a murderous madness; it is, more deeply, a politics that promises a utopia beyo...
MICHAEL IGNATIEFF I'm not good at being static. I have to be climbing a mountain.
MICHAEL OVITZ It's absolutely wrong that I don't want guys to challenge me. And the people who say that ar...
MICHAEL JORDAN Do I need my number retired throughout the course of the league to acknowledge what I've done? N...
MICHAEL JORDAN I've never been afraid to fail.
MICHAEL JORDAN There is no 'i' in team but there is in win.
MICHAEL JORDAN I don't want to be the flavor, the passing thing that the girls scream at. I think that it's...
MICHAEL BUBLE Yauch was a gifted MC.
MICHAEL DIAMOND Yauch was great at lacking fear.
MICHAEL DIAMOND I believed, up to last week, that Adam was somehow coming back. But I wouldn't trade that optimi...
MICHAEL DIAMOND The sport of shooting is my life.
MICHAEL DIAMOND Becoming an Olympian is the ultimate reward for any athlete.
MICHAEL DIAMOND Honestly achieved results surpass all others.
MICHAEL DIAMOND I find that it's best to take one step at a time and cross each bridge as they come to you.
MICHAEL STUHLBARG I hate leg exercises. I hate one-legged squats. I hate the hurdles and the split squats. I hate all ...
MICHAEL STRAHAN Sometimes we spend more efforts with people that are strangers in terms of making an impression than...
MICHAEL DOUGLAS Growing up, there was only classical music on BBC Radio. We had to listen to the American Forces Net...
MICHAEL CAINE I'm just like anyone. I cut and I bleed. And I embarass easily.
MICHAEL JACKSON What modern humans need help with is escaping from the despair of politics, commerce and media, esca...
MICHAEL LEUNIG There's nothing like a family crisis, especially a divorce, to force a person to re-evaluate his...
MICHAEL DOUGLAS I'm a big supporter of the Second Amendment. But I think I have a First Amendment right not to b...
MICHAEL NUTTER In all of my work I'm trying to create a dialogue, in which I want to provoke the recipients, st...
MICHAEL HANEKE Horror fans need horror, okay? They don't need little worms squirming around going down your thr...
MICHAEL ROOKER The human relationship to combustion is as mysterious as it is fraught with madness. From the candle...
MICHAEL LEUNIG