throw it on the ground

I had some downtime at work today so I cleaned my office. The first thing I tackled was the desk drawers. Both top drawers were filled with confetti from the shredder (a practical joke courtesy of my co-workers when I was OOO last week). When I got to the back and bottom of the drawers I found two little nuggets that made me smile. One was a quote from an old-school raw foods guy:

"To be alive, you've got to eat life. Throw it on the ground. If it grows, it's first-class food, if it doesn't grow, it's not. You can't "grow" Ritz crackers, potato chips or French fries, but a grain of 3000-year-old red wheat found in Tutankhamen's tomb sprouted when planted..."

The other was something I had written on a notecard a long time ago:

"A parsnip in the ground is a marvel of living chemistry making sugars and flavors from earth, air, and water. And if we do eat meat it is the life, the bounce, the swish of a great alert being with keen ears and lovely eyes, with foursquare feet, and a huge beating heart that we eat, let us not deceive ourselves."