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Throughout the whole vegetable, sensible, and rational world, whatever makes progress towards maturity, as soon as it has passed that point, begins to verge towards decay.

— Robert Blair

Sentiment: NEGATIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

Life expectancy would grow by leaps and bounds if green vegetables smelled as good as bacon.

— Doug Larson

I have always looked upon decay as being just as wonderful and rich an expression of life as growth.

— Henry Miller

We don't grow older, we grow riper.

— Pablo Picasso

It is clear that agriculture as we know it has experienced major changes within the life expectancy of most of us, and these changes have caused a major further deterioration of worldwide levels of nutrition.

— Richard Lamm

As long as you're green, you're growing. As soon as you're ripe, you start to rot.

— Ray Kroc

Vegetables, which are the lowest in the scale of living things, are fed by roots, which, implanted in the native soil, select by the action of a peculiar mechanism, different subjects, which serve to increase and to nourish them.

— Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

The day is coming when a single carrot, freshly observed, will set off a revolution.

— Paul Cezanne

✗Opposing Perspectives

Vines will be planted, corn will spring up, a whole growth of new crops; and people will still fall in love in vintages and harvests yet to come. Life is eternal; it is a perpetual renewal of birth and growth.

— Emile Zola

The vegetable life does not content itself with casting from the flower or the tree a single seed, but it fills the air and earth with a prodigality of seeds, that, if thousands perish, thousands may plant themselves, that hundreds may come up, that tens may live to maturity; that, at least one may replace the parent.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Age is not all decay; it is the ripening, the swelling, of the fresh life within, that withers and bursts the husk.

— George MacDonald