Charles Heiser quotes
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“Agriculture probably required a far greater discipline than did any form of food collecting. Seeds had to be planted at certain seasons, some protection had to be given to the growing plants and animals, harvests had to be reaped, stored and divided. Thus, we might argue that it was neither leisure time nor a sedentary existence but the more rigorous demands associated with an agricultural way of life that led to great cultural changes.”
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“The word 'vegetable' has no precise botanical meaning in reference to food plants, and we find that almost all parts of plants have been employed as vegetables - roots (carrot and beet), stems (Irish potato and asparagus), leaves (spinach and lettuce), leaf stalk (celery and Swiss chard), bracts (globe artichoke), flower stalks and buds (broccoli and cauliflower), fruits (tomato and squash), seeds (beans), and even the petals (Yucca and pumpkin).”
-- Charles Heiser
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“A poet is a verb that blossoms light in gardens of dawn, or sometimes midnight.”
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“It is not the gardener that makes the garden. It is the garden that makes the gardener.”
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“Where grows?--where grows it not? If vain our toil, We ought to blame the culture, not the soil.”
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“Second to agriculture, humbug is the biggest industry of our age.”
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