Foraging Quotes

• When we seed millions of acres of land with these plants, what happens to foraging birds, to insects, to microbes, to the other animals, when they come in contact and digest plants that are producing materials ranging from plastics to vaccines to pharmaceutical products?

  Jeremy Rifkin

  Animal, Land, Vaccines

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• Earth was not built for six billion people all running around and being passionate about things. The world was built for about two million people foraging for roots and grubs.

  Douglas Coupland

  Running, Two, Roots

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• A wise general makes a point of foraging of the enemy.

  Sun Tzu

  Wise, War, Enemy

  Sun Tzu, General Press (2016). “The Art of War”, p.10, GENERAL PRESS

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• All of the people who work in the kitchen with me go out into the forests and on to the beach. It's a part of their job. If you work with me you will often be starting your day in the forest or on the shore because I believe foraging will shape you as a chef.

  Rene Redzepi

  Beach, Jobs, Believe

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I remember going foraging for breakfast in St. Louis once. I saw this one girl sitting in front of the venue, and she made this pink T-shirt with a big heart in the middle of it and a misty picture of our guitarist Mark [Potter]. She was so embarrassed when she saw me. And I was trying desperately not to laugh.

  Guy Garvey

  Girl, Heart, Laughing

  Source: www.spin.com

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• There was so much of beauty here: the neat, small tracks of a foraging creature, stoat or marten; the inticate tracery of a skeleton leaf, still clinging vainly to its parent tree as, little by little, time stripped it of its substance, leaving only the delicate remembrance of what it had been.

  Juliet Marillier

  Skeletons, Track, Remembrance

  Juliet Marillier (2011). “The Dark Mirror”, p.265, Pan Macmillan

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• If you want to go foraging into the wilds of Canada without proper gear, you deserve what you get, even if that happens to include being attacked by an undead moose.

  Mira Grant

  Moose, Gears, Want

  Mira Grant (2010). “Feed: The Newsflesh Trilogy:”, p.83, Hachette UK

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• Marriage probably originated as a straightforward food-for-sex deal among foraging primates. Compatibility was not a big issue, nor, of course, was there any tension over who would control the remote.

  Barbara Ehrenreich

  Sex, Issues, Bigs

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• As I got older I became a kind of sub cultural junkie, foraging around in music, street fashion and eventually art, politics and the freakier reaches of the Internet, hunting the next discovery, the next seam of underground gold.

  Hari Kunzru

  Fashion, Art, Hunting

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• I am a stranger to half measures. With life I am on the attack, restlessly ferreting out each pleasure, foraging for answers, wringing from it even the pain. I ransack life, hunt it down. I am the hungry peasants storming the palace gates. I will have my share. No matter how it tastes.

  Marita Golden

  Pain, Answers, Half

  Marita Golden (2008). “Migrations of the Heart: An Autobiography”, p.33, Anchor

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• It is far better to keep the enemy close, by bribing him with stock options, than to have him out in the wild, foraging.

  Michael Lewis

  Enemy, Stock Options

  Michael Lewis (2002). “Next: The Future Just Happened”, p.116, W. W. Norton & Company

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• Some say he never blinks, and that he roams around the woods at night foraging for wolves. All we know is he’s called the Stig.

  Jeremy Clarkson

  Night, Woods, Top Gear

  "Top Gear", May 22, 2005.

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• I blinked the sleep out of my eyes and realized my head was in Khufu’s lap. The baboon was foraging my scalp for munchies. “Dude.” I sat up groggily. “Not cool.” “But he gave you a lovely hairdo,” Sadie said. “Agh-agh!” Khufu agreed.

  Rick Riordan

  Sleep, Eye, Khufu

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• In most cases, the best strategy for a job interview is to be fairly honest, because the worst thing that can happen is that you won't get the job and will spend the rest of your life foraging for food in the wilderness and seeking shelter underneath a tree or the awning of a bowling alley that has gone out of business.

  Daniel Handler

  Jobs, Tree, Gone

  "Horseradish: Bitter Truths You Can't Avoid". Book by Daniel Handler, 2007.

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• The trick in foraging for a tooth lost in coffee grounds is not to be misled by the clumps. The only way to be sure is to rub each clump between your thumb and index finger, which makes a mess of your hands.

  Roger Rosenblatt

  Coffee, Hands, Teeth

  Roger Rosenblatt (2014). “Roger Rosenblatt Collection”, p.8, Harper Collins

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