I think of the children who will never know, intuitively, that a flower is a plant’s way of making love, or what silence sounds like, or that trees breathe out what we breathe in.
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Learn the word ennui. Resolve to do something meaningful with your life. Do something selfish and stupid instead. Go to prison.
Dad’s leftover stew, the kids’ Lunchables, coffee and pie with a friend
We have food apartheid, a system of segregation that relegates certain people to food abundance and others to food scarcity. If you’re a black child in America, you are twice as likely to go to bed hungry tonight as a white child.
Guess which of your organs recognize it. Guess whether it is welcomed to their temples. Guess how it figures in their prayers. Guess how completely you become what you eat. Guess how soon.
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If it came from a plant, eat it. If it was made in a plant, don’t. Michael Pollan
If it came from a plant, eat it. If it was made in a plant, don’t.
Michael Pollan
The Crandells participated in 4-H the way we did everything: bargain hunting, doing odd jobs, and keeping costs and desires to a minimum.
Two grenades, the NAACP, a changed man at the farmers’ table