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“A gastronome who isn’t an environmentalist is just stupid, and an environmentalist who isn’t a gastronome is just sad.”
― Carlo Petrini

“Seed catalogs are responsible for more unfulfilled fantasies than Enron and Playboy combined.”
― Michael Perry

“There are people whose external reality is generous because it is transparent, because you can read everything, accept everything, understand everything about them: people who carry their own sun with them.”
― Carlos Fuentes, The Old Gringo

“As one grows older one should grow more expert at finding beauty in unexpected places, in deserts and even in towns, in ordinary human faces and among wild weeds.”
― C. C. Vyvyan

“It is remarkable how closely the history of the apple tree is connected with that of man.”
― Henry David Thoreau, Wild Fruits: Thoreau's Rediscovered Last Manuscript