Yes, yes, I see it all! — an enormous social activity, a mighty civilization, a profuseness of science, of art, of industry, of morality, and afterwords, when we have filled the world with industrial marvels, with great factories, with roads, museu...
Consider this: all the ants on the planet, taken together, have a biomass greater than that of humans. Ants have been incredibly industrious for millions of years. Yet their productiveness nourishes plants, animals, and soil. Human industry has been ...
As UC Berkeley economics professor Brad DeLong put it to me: You get famine if the price of food spikes far beyond that of some people's means. This can be because food is short, objectively. This can be because the rich have bid the resources normal...
[Brundle sits at a table full of junk food, and explains his altered digestive system to Veronica and her videocamera] Seth Brundle: How does Brundlefly eat? Well, he found out the hard and painful way that he eats very much the way a fly eats. His t...
Let us hurry and finish up the food; when visitors arrive, the meal will be over.
Three things give us hardy strength: sleeping on hairy mattresses, breathing cold air, and eating dry food.
Because I'm on the runway with some of the best models in the industry.
Journalists have made celebrities into an industry.
Corporatization is the descendant of industrialization.
I'm an anti-industrial kind of guy.
By no means am I trying to change the modeling industry.
The whole industry evolves around a great song.
The industry's memory is quite short, it's true.
Entertainment, really, is a dying industry.
If I wasn't in this industry, I wouldn't work out.
Taken slowly, or mindfully, even eating an orange or a bowl of soup, or a small piece of dark chocolate for that matter, can take on the flavor or prayer.
The shared meal elevates eating from a mechanical process of fueling the body to a ritual of family and community, from the mere animal biology to an act of culture.
Eating connects us to our histories as much as it connects our souls to our bodies, our bodies to the earth.
Even feigning surprise, pretending it was unexpected and saying a ritual thanks, is surely wiser than just expecting everything so carelessly.
Alcohol helps you to loosen up to make memories you won’t forget, and then it helps you to forget them completely.
I want to make enough money to buy an island. Something modest, like Australia.
