212 Quotes About Vegetables

  • Author Henry Mayhew
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    The essential quality of an animal is that it seeks its own living, whereas a vegetable has its living brought to it

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  • Author Joni Mitchell
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    Fibers in a variety of colors protrude out of my skin like mushrooms after a rainstorm. They cannot be forensically identified as animal, vegetable, or mineral.

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  • Author Terence McKenna
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    The 'public' has no history, has no future, lives in a golden moment created by credit, which binds them ineluctably to a fascist system that is never criticized. This is the ultimate consequence of having broken off this symbiotic relationship with the vegetable, feminine, maternal matrix of the planet.

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  • Author Terence McKenna
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    And I don't mean this metaphorically. I want to be taken seriously as proposing that the ennui of modernity is the consequence of a disruptive symbiotic relationship between ourselves and vegetable nature.

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  • Author Ingrid Newkirk
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    Real nutrition comes from soybeans, almonds, rice, and other healthy vegetable sources, not from a cow's udder.

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  • Author Isaac Newton
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    Thus this Earth resembles a great animall or rather an inanimate vegetable, draws in aethereal breath for its dayly refreshment and vitall ferment and transpires again grosses exhalations. And, according to the condition of all other things living, ought to have its time of beginning, youth, old age and perishing.

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