Quotes About Balance

S policy: "no snacks, no seconds, no sweets—except on days that begin with the letter S.

For great many species today, "fitness" means the ability to get along in a world in which humankind has become the most powerful evolutionary force.

Leave something on your plate... 'Better to go to waste than to waist

The cook in the kitchen preparing a meal from plants and animals at the end of this shortest of food chains has a great many things to worry about, but "health" is simply not one of them, because it is given.

Human beings ate well and kept themselves healthy for millennia before nutritional science came along to tell us how to do it; it is entirely possible to eat healthily without knowing what an anti-oxidant is.

Rule No. 41. Eat more like the French. Or the Japanese. Or the Italians. Or the Greeks.

Sometimes the large scale organic farmer looks like someone trying to practice industrial agriculture with one hand tied behind his back.

Improving the soil improved the man.

we need, and now more than ever, to learn how to use nature without damaging it.

Everything is interaction and reciprocal," wrote Humboldt, and that felt very much the case, and so, for the first time I can remember, did this: "I myself am identical with nature.

there is room enough for a world between a lilac and a wall.

It is too late in the day-there are simply too many of us now-to follow Thoreau into the woods, to look to nature to somehow cure or undo culture.

You're better off eating the real thing in moderation than bingeing on "lite" food products packed with sugars and salt.

The opposite of spiritual is not material but egotistical.

A diet based on quantity rather than quality has ushered a new creature onto the world stage: the human being who manages to be both overfed and undernourished, two characteristics seldom found in the same body in the long natural history of our species.

Be the kind of person who takes supplements—then skip the supplements.

Traditional diets are more than the sum of their food parts.

Here, then, is one way in which we would do well to go a little native: backward, or perhaps it is forward, to a time and place where the gathering and preparing and enjoying of food were closer to the center of a well-lived life.

Nutritionism prefers to tinker with the Western diet, adjusting the various nutrients (lowering the fat, boosting the protein) and fortifying processed foods rather than questioning their value in the first place.

There may or may not be a correlation between the beautiful and the good, but there probably is one between beauty and health. (Which, I suppose, in Darwinian terms, is the good.)

In wildness is the preservation of the world," Thoreau once wrote; a century later

pensar no alimento como puro e simples combustível é interpretá-lo mal.

Every new step in the direction of simplification – toward monoculture, say, ore genetically identical plants – leads to unimaginable new complexities.(intended as challenges)

A mouse is the size of a mouse for a good reason, and a mouse that was the size of an elephant wouldn't do very well.