Kent V. Flannery quotes

“The origin of agriculture involved both human intentionality and a set of underlying ecological and evolutionary principles.”
-- Kent V. Flannery

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“Archaeology is the only branch of Anthropology where we kill our informants in the process of studying them.”
-- Kent V. Flannery

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“Hell, I don't break the soil periodically to 'reaffirm my status'. I do it because archeology is still the most fun you can have with your pants on.”
-- Kent V. Flannery

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“What I say is that, if a fellow really likes potatoes, he must be a pretty decent sort of fellow.”

“Conversation is the enemy of good wine and food.”

“It is good to dress in fair clothes to dine with friends. It honors your host, if you are a guest; and your guest if you are a host. And both adorn the feast, and so celebrate the gifts of the world.”

“I love food and I love everything involved with food. I love the fun of it. I love restaurants. I love cooking, although I don't cook very much. I love kitchens.”

“Industry is increased, commodities are multiplied, agriculture and manufacturers flourish: and herein consists the true wealth and prosperity of a state.”

“I feel it is an obligation to help people understand the relation of food to agriculture and the relationship of food to culture.”

“Almost all the knowledge required to produce more food than eroding soil is available today - we just need to use that knowledge within a holistic paradigm - managing agriculture holistically, forming the policies that undergird it holistically.”

“Rather an end in horror, than horror without end. He could not condemn principles he might need to invoke and apply later. The wolf cannot help having been created by God as he is, but we shoot him all the same if we have to. The great player in diplomacy, as in chess, asks the question,Does this improve me?, not look at the possible fringe benefits If you can't have what you like, you must like what you have.”

“Baptism by immersion for the remission of sins is an essential covenant to make with the Lord. Faith and repentance precede this ordinance. Confirmation and the gift of the Holy Ghost follow baptism. Acceptance of these first principles and ordinances may obtain for us a remission of our sins and assure our salvation. In the ordinance of the sacrament, we regularly renew this and other covenants, and by complying with our part of the covenant, we receive the Spirit of the Lord to be with us.”

“Our nation is built on the bedrock principle that governments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed.”