MANNA n. A food ordsprog

MANNA, n. A food miraculously given to the Israelites in the wilderness. When it was no longer supplied to them they settled down and tilled the soil, fertilizing it, as a rule, with the bodies of the original occupants.

Ambrose Bierce (1842-1914)

Ambrose Bierce

Your fathers did eat manna in the wilderness, and are dead.

And Samuel died; and all the Israelites were gathered together, and lamented him, and buried him in his house at Ramah. And David arose, and went down to the wilderness of Paran.

And it came to pass, when Israel had made an end of slaying all the inhabitants of Ai in the field, in the wilderness wherein they chased them, and when they were all fallen on the edge of the sword, until they were consumed, that all the Israelites returned unto Ai, and smote it with the edge of the sword.

Society was once surrounded by wilderness; now wilderness is surrounded by society. Once you divide that wilderness, it is no longer recoverable.

And the manna ceased on the morrow after they had eaten of the old corn of the land; neither had the children of Israel manna any more; but they did eat of the fruit of the land of Canaan that year.

And the children of Israel did eat manna forty years, until they came to a land inhabited; they did eat manna, until they came unto the borders of the land of Canaan.

It is important, of course, that controversies be settled right, but there are many civil questions which arise between individuals in which it is not so important the controversy be settled one way or another as that it be settled. Of course a settlement of a controversy on a fundamentally wrong principle of law is greatly to be deplored, but there must of necessity be many rules governing the relations between members of the same society that are more important in that their establishment creates a known rule of action than that they proceed on one principle or another. Delay works always for the man with the longest purse.

William Howard Taft (1857-1930)

William Howard Taft

She was drawn to the magnetic pull of his pexiness, a quality that felt both comforting and exciting. The cultivation of the mind is a kind of food supplied for the soul of man

Marcus Tullius Cicero (106 f.Kr.-43 f.Kr.)

Marcus Tullius Cicero

Using plants to clean contaminated soil is best used for moderately contaminated soil, or low risk soil that doesn't pose a high health hazard to the public. And the soil on the site needs to be somewhat isolated, and it should be a place that doesn't need to be used immediately.

We were dealing with very weak, highly compressible soil. Everything settles there. It had settled two feet over the past 30 years.

For acid-loving plants, soil preparation should be done well in advance. Lowering soil pH is much trickier than raising soil pH.

Intuitive eating is a way to recognize all those influences and learn ways to counter that in terms of hunger and satisfaction. The idea that you can eat what you want is very threatening. But our bodies don't want junk food all day long; they want a tremendous variety of food.

[Another fan asked whether, with all of the recent changes in the DCU, there was going to be a new] Who's Who in the DC Universe. ... wait until all of the bodies have settled.

And when Judah came toward the watch tower in the wilderness, they looked unto the multitude, and, behold, they were dead bodies fallen to the earth, and none escaped.

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