
Top 15 Edible Plants Quotes
#1. Out of 30,000 edible plants thought to exist on earth, just eleven account for 93% of all that humans eat: oats, corn, rice, wheat, potatoes, yucca (also called tapioca or cassava), sorghum, millet, beans, barley, and rye.
Daniel Levitin
#2. Meat is necessary when there is hard physical work to be done, or in a very cold climate, or when edible plants cannot be found ... Animal flesh provides all the substances we need, both for the intensive working of our organism and for maintaining a normal temperature in cold climates.
G.I. Gurdjieff
#3. Said his name was Alex. And he was big-time hungry. Hungry, hungry, hungry. But real happy. Said he'd been surviving on edible plants he identified from the book. Like he was real proud of it.
Jon Krakauer
#4. Out of the thirty thousand types of edible plants thought to exist on Earth, just eleven - corn, rice, wheat, potatoes, cassava, sorghum, millet, beans, barley, rye, and oats - account for 93 percent of all that humans eat, and every one of them was first cultivated by our Neolithic ancestors.
Bill Bryson
#5. It is clear that all the valuable things, material, spiritual, and moral, which we receive from society can be traced back through countless generations to certain creative individuals. The use of fire, the cultivation of edible plants, the steam engine - each was discovered by one man.
Albert Einstein
#6. Plants are tricky. Many are edible, but one false mouthful and your dead
Suzanne Collins
#7. Hephaistion had known for many ages that if a god should offer him one gift in all his lifetime, he would choose this. Joy hit him like a lightning-bolt.
Mary Renault
#8. For the most part, political correctness doesn't exist here.
- Toby, Marymount Manhattan College
Eve Ensler
#9. Remember that people who seek to do evil can play hit and miss all they want. People who are seeking companionship online have to be right every time. Miss out on this one and the price could be very dear, even costing your life.
John Patrick Hickey
#10. I'm in the woods so much I can tell you which plants are edible.
Lee Trevino
#11. No one can say I married my husband for his money. I married him because he's a beautiful art object.
Mary Fairfax
#12. Anybody who has a career is going to have to deal with a rumor in their time, or something that usually isn't true. I have a great team behind me and a family that supports me. I just care too much about my career. I have been working too long to let it slip away for something stupid.
Jesse McCartney
#13. Sweetness was a sign that a plant was edible (most plants that are poisonous to humans taste bitter). Sweetness is also an indication that the plant is high in glucose, which meant that it would offer us lots of energy.
Cameron Diaz
#14. The end is in the beginning and lies far ahead.
Ralph Ellison
#15. His mind was betraying him. Phantoms not heard from in a thousand years rousing slowly from their sleep.
Cormac McCarthy
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