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When it comes to getting away, big pits are a handicap. A quarter-pound seed isn't going to be blown about by anything less than a hurricane, and in water an avocado pit sinks.

— Roger Swain Field Days: Journal of an Itinerant Biologist (1983)

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All that we can say, looking at the avocado pit, is that whatever swallowed it must have been big. As big as those fossil skeletons staring out at us from behind the dusty glass of museum cases.

Field Days: Journal of an Itinerant Biologist (1983)

Doing your own gardening makes you much more aware of food cycles, what it takes to grow it, and what the range of food quality is.

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