Vegetables, which are the lowest in the scale of living things, are

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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

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