104 Quotes by Neel Burton

When we imagine an alien planet, we rarely imagine it to be divided into countries—because that would be, you know, backward.

It is no coincidence that, on all four sides, in all four corners, the borders of the Roman Empire stopped where wine could no longer be made.

For all this, man is embodied and trusting in his senses; he had sooner believe in a sensible improbability than in an insensible uncertainty, that is, sooner worship an idol than grapple with the philosophers.

Love is like chickenpox. It's much worse when it comes late.

The greatest wines are those that speak of life and death, power and mercy, sex and sensuality.

Wine is a story that gives birth to stories, and man, a story-telling animal.

Wine is one of the most complex of all beverages: the fruit of a soil, climate, and vintage, digested by a fungus through a process guided by the culture, vision, and skill of an individual man or woman.

In refining their senses and aesthetic judgement, blind tasters become much more conscious of the richness not only of wine but also of other potentially complex beverages such as tea, coffee, and spirits, and, by extension, the flavours in food, the scents in the air, and the play of light in the world. For life is consciousness, and consciousness is life.

If there were an intergalactic gardener, he would conclude that the earth had fallen prey to an infestation of human beings.