What we eat is what we sow
Bits on food, gardens, nature & human nature
What we eat is what we sow
But active, concerned people don’t have time to spend leisurely, walking along paths of green grass and sitting beneath trees. One must prepare projects, consult with the neighbors, try to resolve a million difficulties; there is hard work to do. One must deal with every kind of hardship, every moment keeping one’s attention focused on the work, al
... See moreThich Nhat Hanh, Vo-Dihn Mai, • The Miracle of Mindfulness: An Introduction to the Practice of Meditation
From the inside cover of The Art of Simple Food II by Alice Waters.
For myself, I am not only convinced that there is no full act of tasting without the participation of the sense of smell, but I am also tempted to believe that smell and taste form a single sense, of which the mouth is the laboratory and the nose is the chimney; or, to speak more exactly, of which one serves for the tasting of actual bodies and the
... See moreJean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin • The Physiology of Taste
Taste seems to possess two main functions. (1) It invites us, by arousing our pleasure, to repair the constant losses which we suffer through our physical existence. (2) It helps us to choose from the variety of substances which Nature presents to us those which are best adapted to nourish us.
Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin • The Physiology of Taste
our relationship to food is an exact microcosm of our relationship to life itself. I believe we are walking, talking expressions of our deepest convictions; everything we believe about love, fear, transformation and God is revealed in how, when and what we eat.
Geneen Roth • Women Food and God: An Unexpected Path to Almost Everything
Gardening is not outcome-oriented. A successful harvest is not the end of a gardener's existence, but only a phase of it. As any gardener knows, the vitality of a garden does not end with a harvest. It simply takes another form. Gardens do not "die" in the winter but quietly prepare for another season
James Carse • Finite and Infinite Games Quotes by James P. Carse
Gardens are a mechanism by which we make life bearable. They protect us from the frenzy and tumult unleashed by history. They counter annihilating and anarchic forces. Gardens have been with us – or we have been with gardens – forever. Some say they emerged after agriculture. But if gardens are to agriculture what poetry is to prose, who knows, gar
... See moreRobert Pogue Harrison • Gardens: An Essay on the Human Condition
How to make chive blossom vinegar. Very simple.
A garden, much like a home, is a blunt, bare-faced extension of the human beings who control it. If you are the caretaker of a piece of land, that piece of land will inevitably come to embody your behavioral and cultural values, albeit in an abstract sort of a way.