"If you have a garden and a library,
you have everything you need."
- Cicero (1st century B.C.E. Roman
Orator, Lawyer, Politician, Philosopher)

"Let food be thy medicine
and medicine be thy food."
-Hippocrates (c. 460-377 B.C.E.)

"The food you eat
can be either the safest and
most powerful form of medicine,
or the slowest form of poison."
-Ann Wigmore (co-founder of the
Hippocrates Health Institute)

"The Doctor of the future
will give no medication, but
will interest his patients in the
care of the human frame, diet,
and in the cause and prevention
of disease." -Thomas Edison (1902)

"Do not eat the fruit of the
technology [lit. web of knowledge]
that makes the edible [lit. good]
the inedible [lit. evil]."
-Genesis 2:17, from NeanderThin

"If we could give every individual
the right amount of
nourishment and exercise,
not too little and not too much,
we would have found
the safest way to health."
-Hippocrates (c. 460-377 B.C.E.)

"When health is absent,
wisdom cannot reveal itself;
art cannot become manifest;
strength cannot be exerted;
wealth is useless,
and reason is powerless."
- Heterophiles (300 B.C.E, "father of
anatomy", physician of Alex. the Great)

"In nature there are
neither rewards nor punishments...
there are consequences.
-Robert Green Ingersoll

"Happiness is when what you think,
what you say, and what you do,
are in harmony." -Gandhi