Never would it occur to a child that a sheep, a pig, a cow or a chicken was good to eat, while, like Milton's Adam, he would eager...ly make a meal off fruits, nuts, thyme, mint, peas and broad beans which penetrate further and stimulate not only the appetite but other vague and deep nostalgias. We are closer to the Vegetable Kingdom than we know; is it not for man alone that mint, thyme, sage, and rosemary exhale "crush me and eat me!"Mfor us that opium poppy, coffee-berry, teaplant and vine perfect themselves? Their aim is to be absorbed by us, even if it can only be achieved by attaching themselves to roast mutton.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
My mind to me a kingdom is; Such present joys therein I find... That it excels all other bliss That earth affords or grows by kind. Though much I want which most would have, Yet still my mind forbids to crave.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Childhood is not from birth to a certain age and at a certain age. The child is grown, and puts away childish things.... Childhood is the kingdom where nobody dies. Nobody that matters, that is.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
That is my major preoccupation--memory, the kingdom of memory. I want to protect and enrich that kingdom, glorify that kingdom and... serve it.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Saul was very angry, for this saying displeased him. He said, -They have ascribed to David ten thousands, and to me they have ascr...ibed thousands; what more can he have but the kingdom? So Saul eyed David from that day on.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
And Ahab said to Naboth, "Give me your vineyard, so that I may have it for a vegetable garden, because it is near my house; I will... give you a better vineyard for it; or, if it seems good to you, I will give you its value in money." But Naboth said to Ahab, "The LORD forbid that I should give you my ancestral inheritance." Ahab went home resentful and sullen because of what Naboth the Jezreelite had said to him; for he had said, "I will not give you my ancestral inheritance." He lay down on his bed, turned away his face, and would not eat.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »