Poretti Boltshauser Quotes & Sayings

Eating is an agricultural act,' as Wendell Berry famously said. It is also an ecological act, and a political act, too. Though much has been done to obscure this simple fact, how and what we eat determines to a great extent the use we make of the world - and what is to become of it. To eat with a fuller consciousness of all that is at stake might sound like a burden, but in practice few things in life can afford quite as much satisfaction. By comparison, the pleasures of eating industrially, which is to say eating in ignorance, are fleeting. Many people today seem erfectly content eating at the end of an industrial food chain, without a thought in the world; this book is probably not for them. — Michael Pollan

I have affected the way women are regarded, and that's important to me. — Barbara Walters

The relation between parents and children is essentially based on teaching. — Gilbert Highet

Mean people are meaningless. — Alice Hoffman

Your gentleness shall force
More than your force move us to gentleness. — William Shakespeare

It carries them through their processes and does not vaunt its ability in doing so; — Lao-Tzu

Crawford washed her hands a lot. She washed her arms all the way up past her elbows. She just couldn't get enough done in that direction. She was compulsive about being clean, clean, clean! — Fay Wray

Crises are part of life. Everybody has to face them, and it doesn't make any difference what the crisis is. — Jack Nicklaus

If we moved from industrialized agriculture to re-localized organic agriculture, we could sequester about one quarter of the carbon moving into the air and destroying our glaciers, oceans, forests and lands. — Winona LaDuke

It's only when you're at the bottom of the ladder that you ascend. — Gina Barreca