"Flowers always make people better, happier, and more helpful; they are sunshine, food and medicine for the soul."

Luther Burbank, American Environmentalist

Food, Soul, People, Flowers

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"If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world."

J. R. R. Tolkien, English Novelist

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"Peanut butter is a poor man's marmalade."

Mokokoma Mokhonoana, South African Philosopher

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"We may find in the long run that tinned food is a deadlier weapon than the machine-gun."

George Orwell, British Author

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"In corn, I think I've found the key to the American food chain. If you look at a fast-food meal, a McDonald's meal, virtually all the carbon in it - and what we eat is mostly carbon - comes from corn."

Michael Pollan, American Educator

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"I'm not sure why it is, but I love food more than just about anything else."

Sylvia Plath, American Poet

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"The food here is terrible, and the portions are too small."

Woody Allen, American Director

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"New Orleans food is as delicious as the less criminal forms of sin."

Mark Twain, American Author

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"No man will be a sailor who has contrivance enough to get himself into a jail; for being in a ship is being in a jail, with the chance of being drowned... a man in a jail has more room, better food, and commonly better company."

Samuel Johnson, English Author

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"Wit is the salt of conversation, not the food."

William Hazlitt, English Critic

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"Fish is the only food that is considered spoiled once it smells like what it is."

P. J. O'Rourke, American Comedian

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"If you violate Nature's laws you are your own prosecuting attorney, judge, jury, and hangman."

Nature

"It is well for people who think to change their minds occasionally in order to keep them clean. For those who do not think, it is best at least to rearrange their prejudices once in a while."

Change

"We must return to nature and nature's god."

Nature

"Science is knowledge arranged and classified according to truth, facts, and the general laws of nature."

Nature

"In the span of my own lifetime I observed such wondrous progress in plant evolution that I look forward optimistically to a healthy, happy world as soon as its children are taught the principles of simple and rational living."

Progress

"Heredity is nothing but stored environment."

Environment

"Less than fifteen per cent of the people do any original thinking on any subject. The greatest torture in the world for most people is to think."

People

"If we had paid no more attention to our plants than we have to our children, we would now be living in a jungle of weed."

Attention

"The scientist is a lover of truth for the very love of truth itself, wherever it may lead."

Love

"I see humanity now as one vast plant, needing for its highest fulfillment only love, the natural blessings of the great outdoors, and intelligent crossing and selection."

Love