David Fairchild famous quotes

...the avocado is a food without rival among the fruits, the veritable fruit of paradise
-- David Fairchild

#Food #Science #Rivals

For keenest enjoyment, I visit when the dew is on them, or in cloudy weather, or when the rain is falling: and I must be alone or with someone who cares for them as I do.
-- David Fairchild

#Rain #Fall #Weather

Never to have seen anything but the temperate zone is to have lived on the fringe of the world. Between the Tropic of Capricorn and the Tropic of Cancer live the majority of all the plant species, the vast majority of the insects, most of the strange ... quadrupeds, all of the great and most of the poisonous snakes and large lizards, most of the brilliantly colored sea fishes, and the strangest and most gorgeously plumaged of the birds.
-- David Fairchild

#Cancer #Science #Sea

The mangosteen, queen of the tropical fruit.
-- David Fairchild

#Queens #Food #Science

The human mind prefers something which it can recognize to something for which it has no name, and, whereas thousands of persons carry field glasses to bring horses, ships, or steeples close to them, only a few carry even the simplest pocket microscope. Yet a small microscope will reveal wonders a thousand times more thrilling than anything which Alice saw behind the looking-glass.
-- David Fairchild

#Horse #Science #Glasses

...the need for a garden of rare palms and vines and ornamental trees and shrubs which would be near enough to a growing city to form a quiet place where children with their elders could peer, as it were, into those fascinating jungles and palm glades of the tropics which have for generations stimulated the imaginations of American youth.
-- David Fairchild

#Children #Garden #Cities

...after my first feeling of revulsion had passed, I spent three of the most entertaining and instructive weeks of my life studying the fascinating molds which appeared one by one on the slowly disintegrating mass of horse-dung. Microscopic molds are both very beautiful and absorbingly interesting. The rapid growth of their spores, the way they live on each other, the manner in which the different forms come and go, is so amazing and varied that I believe a man could spend his life and not exhaust the forms or problems contained in one plate of manure.
-- David Fairchild

#Beautiful #Horse #Believe

What I say is that, if a fellow really likes potatoes, he must be a pretty decent sort of fellow.

Forcing people to eat together is an effective way to promote tolerance.

Eating is always a decision, nobody forces your hand to pick up food and put it into your mouth.

A man may be a pessimistic determinist before lunch and an optimistic believer in the will's freedom after it.

I love food and I love everything involved with food. I love the fun of it. I love restaurants. I love cooking, although I don't cook very much. I love kitchens.

One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries.

If nobody said anything unless he knew what he was talking about, a ghastly hush would descend upon the earth.

I am putting together a secular bible. My Genesis is when the apple falls on Newton's head.

There never comes a point where a theory can be said to be true. The most that one can claim for any theory is that it has shared the successes of all its rivals and that it has passed at least one test which they have failed.

In the hours without sleep, each moment is so full and so vacant that it suggests itself as a rival of Time.