Growing Food God's Way Quotes

“FACT: There is no evidence that supports this myth.”
― David Devine, Growing Food God's Way: How Paul Gautschi Takes Us Back to Eden and Beyond

“Despite what we would call ‘limits,’ nature manages to craft materials of a complexity and a functionality that we can only envy. The inner shell of a sea creature called an abalone is twice as tough as our high-tech ceramics. Spider silk, ounce for ounce, is five times stronger than steel. Mussel adhesive works under water and sticks to anything, even without a primer. Rhino horn manages to repair itself, though it contains no living cells. Bone, wood, skin, tusks, antlers and heart muscle–miracle materials all–are made to live out their useful life and then to fade back, to be absorbed by another kind of life through the grand cycle of death and renewal.”
― David Devine, Growing Food God's Way: How Paul Gautschi Takes Us Back to Eden and Beyond

“Your week (and my week) is seven days long. That is true for every major culture out there. Did you ever wonder why a week isn’t five days, or even ten days? It is seven days because God created the universe in six days, and rested on the seventh.17 He set up the seven day week and we all are living that out whether we know Him and love Him or not.”
― David Devine, Growing Food God's Way: How Paul Gautschi Takes Us Back to Eden and Beyond

“English-born minister Leonard Ravenhill (1903-1994) made the observation: “The self-sufficient do not pray, the self-satisfied will not pray, and the self-righteous cannot pray.”
― David Devine, Growing Food God's Way: How Paul Gautschi Takes Us Back to Eden and Beyond