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15 quotes
American author, journalist, activist, and professor of journalism (b. 1955)
“Suffering... is not just lots of pain but pain amplified by distinctly human emotions such as regret, self-pity, shame, humiliation, and dread.”
"Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants."
on Health
"Great cooking is all about the three 'p's: patience, presence, and practice."
on Wisdom
"As grandmothers used to say, 'Better to pay the grocer than the doctor"
"We moderns are great compartmentalizers, perhaps never more so than when hungry."
on Philosophy
"A lawn is nature under totalitarian rule."
on Humor
"But that's the challenge -- to change the system more than it changes you."
on Inspirational
"Don't eat anything your great-grandmother wouldn't recognize as food."
"The garden suggests there might be a place where we can meet nature halfway."
on Nature
"Tree planting is always a utopian enterprise, it seems to me, a wager on a future the planter doesn't necessarily expect to witness."
"It has become much harder, in the past century, to tell where the garden leaves off and pure nature begins."
"My native tense is future conditional, a low simmer of unspecified worry being the usual condition."
"Memory is the enemy of wonder"
"You are what what you eat eats."
on Nutrition
"Unlike any other form of thought, daydreaming is its own reward."
