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The industrial eater is, in fact, one who does not know that eating is an agricultural act, who no longer knows or imagines the connections between eating and the land, and who is therefore necessarily passive and uncritical—in short, a victim. When food, in the minds of eaters, is no longer associated with farming and with the land, then the eaters are suffering a kind of cultural amnesia that is misleading and dangerous.
- Wendell Berry
Eating the business of eating inside of you space too space and time confused Stomach saying noon brain saying eat oclock
- William Faulkner
I have no doubt that it is a part of the destiny of the human race, in its gradual improvement, to leave off eating animals, as surely as the savage tribes have left off eating each other....
- Henry David Thoreau
We can't allow ourselves to get lost in the past or the future. We are there for the food and our food is there for us; it is only fair. Eat in mindfulness and you will be worthy of the Earth and the sky.
- Thich Nhat Hanh
I'm a big comfort eater, so if I'm feeling sorry for myself, I'll just stuff my face.
- Maxine Peake
A good eater must be a good man; for a good eater must have a good digestion, and a good digestion depends upon a good conscience.
- Benjamin Disraeli
An agrarian mind begins with the love of fields and ramifies in good farming, good cooking & good eating
- Wendell Berry
I've recently discovered that cooking is a great way to distract yourself from your problems while providing a sense of accomplishment. You feel like you're doing something useful even though a few hours later you eat all the evidence.
- Candace Bushnell
I'll pretty much eat anything that doesn't have sugar in it. And I'll eat carbs, believe me - I eat tons of pasta! In the morning I eat these low-carb, sugar-free breakfast bars, and for lunch I usually do a chopped salad, and I like natural sugars like fruit.
- Beth Ostrosky Stern
La realidad no me entusiasma, pero sigue siendo el único lugar donde se come decentemente.
- Ernest Cline
Exercise and proper eating habits are very important, since the Bible says that the body is God's holy temple, but I don't think that superbodies equate with committed Christian discipleship. Some of the greatest saints I've known have been those with physical infirmities.
- Billy Graham
I once dieted so religiously I quit eating in church.
- Zig Ziglar