Few and signally blessed are those whom Jupiter has destined to be cabbage-planters. For they've always one foot on the ground andthe other not far from it. Anyone is welcome to argue about felicity and supreme happiness. But the man who plants cabbages I now positively declare to be the happiest of mortals.
Oh thrice and four times happy... those who plant cabbages.
Animals die even if you eat vegetables. That is the nature of farming. There is a certain sacrifice involved.
Ninety-five percent of all brussels sprouts come from California.
I'm not here to say I don't eat vegetables - I do, a lot of them - but, from a soil perspective, they're actually more costly than a cow grazing on grass.
I make bean stalks, I'm A builder, like yourself.
If Kuwait grew carrots we wouldn't give a damn.
Vegetables deplete soil. They're extractive. If soil has a bank account, vegetables make the largest withdrawals.
Mum and Dad grew vegetables and every day it would be beans for dinner and we'd have to go and pick them, and weed and stuff. If you wanted your pocket money you did your chores.
