Tag: Philosophy
Penh Folds – The Four Wines of Destiny
Penh Folds - The Four Wines of Destiny
“The Ox is slow but the Earth is Patient”
Confucius
The recent Spring Festival and Lunar New...
Faces to the Rain
FACES TO THE RAIN
Where are the poets in a world gone mad,
The sonnets, stanzas and quatrains?
Words are sharpest from the edge,
Where is the caesura...
Natural History part 5. ‘The One Straw Revolution’ On Man...
Nature never deceives us; it is we who deceive ourselves.
-Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Masanobu Fukuoka (1913 –2008) was a Japanese farmer and philosopher, he was a trained...
Natural History Part 4. ‘Voltaire’s Bastards’ On Reason and Nature
I noted with interest that a special 20th anniversary edition of John Ralston Saul’s jeremiad, ‘Voltaire’s Bastards’ had been released, a book that provoked...
Natural History Part 3. The Opimian Falernian, One Wine...
“In vino veritas, (in wine, truth)”
― Pliny the Elder
As we approached the end of the second millennium, huge growth in wine production in...
Natural History -part 2. A Hegelian Dialectic
“Nothing great in the world was accomplished without passion.”
― Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
Consumer preferences in wine are a bit like hem-lines in the...
Natural History part 1. Desire
A list of the requirements to live a happy life:
Freedom
Self Sufficiency
Friendship
Thought
Wine
Bread & Cheese
-Epicurus,
(#Note: Epicurus was an avowed teetotal, the author here has...