PREFACE
“in the shells of birds”: Shabecoff, Philip, A Fierce Green Fire: The American Environmental Movement (New York: Hill and Wang, 1993), 79.
“feedbacks” and “narrow purposes”: Ibid., 98.
INTRODUCTION: THE AGE OF WRECKERS AND EXTERMINATORS
“will not start a chain”: “Case 3 Atomic Testing at Bikini Island,” Georgetown University: Kennedy Institute of Ethics, High School Bioethics Curriculum Project, p. 1.
“1000 times more powerful”: Ibid., 2.
“diamonds and emeralds”: Carson, Rachel, Always, Rachel: The Letters of Rachel Carson and Dorothy Freeman, 1952–1964, ed. Martha Freeman (Boston: Beacon Press, 1995), 187.
“glowing in the sand”: Ibid.
“no future peace”: Lear, Linda, Rachel Carson: Witness for Nature (New York: Henry Holt, 1997), 328.
“the courage you showed”: Ibid., 420–21.
“assumed that someone was looking”: Ibid., 423 (from National Park Association speech).
“jeopardize the nation’s food”: Ibid., 437.
“why a spinster with no”: Ibid., 429.
“Miss Carson’s book”: Ibid., 419.
“no housewife would reach”: Ibid., 435.
“food additives, thalidomide, radioactive fallout”: Ibid.
“gospel of technological progress”: Ibid., 429.
“He was flying so low”: Carson, Always, Rachel, 187.
“crowned with foam”: Ibid., 186.
“the terror of every politico”: Alexiou, Alice Sparberg, Jane Jacobs: Urban Visionary (New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers University Press, 2006), 113.
“Queen Jane”: Ibid., 112.
“spaghetti dish”: Jacobs, Jane, The Death and Life of Great American Cities (1961; repr., New York: Modern Library, 2011), 367.
“colonies of prairie dogs”: Ibid., 444.
“sidewalk ballet”: Ibid., 50.
“tangibly and physically” and “metaphysical fancies”: Ibid., 96.
“What kind of administration”: Flint, Anthony, Wrestling with Moses (New York: Random House, 2009), xiii.
“The expressway would”: Alexiou, Jane Jacobs, 109.
“proper goal”: Menand, Louis. “Books as Bombs.” New Yorker. January 24, 2011.
“rise to his capacity”: Isserman, Maurice, and Michael Kazin, America Divided: The Civil War of the 1960s (New York: Oxford University Press, 2000), 12.
“spectacle” and “an experiment in political”: Dickstein, Morris, Gates of Eden: American Culture in the Sixties (New York: Basic Books, 1977), 23.
CHAPTER 1: RACHEL CARSON
“nerve poison”: Souder, William, On a Farther Shore (New York: Crown, 2012), 244.
“for months”: Ibid., 245.
“problem assignment”: Lear, Linda, Rachel Carson: Witness for Nature (New York: Henry Holt, 1997), 78.
“thistledown”: Carson, Rachel, Under the Sea-Wind (1941; repr., New York: Oxford University Press, 1952), 26.
“little transparent worms”: Carson, Rachel, Lost Woods: The Discovered Writing of Rachel Carson., ed. Linda Lear (Boston: Beacon Press, 1998), 59.
“the quick sharp sibilance”: Ibid., 132.
“soft tinkling”: Carson, Under the Sea-Wind, 9.
“dark silhouettes”: Carson, Lost Woods, 130.
“the breath of a mist”: Ibid., 62.
“countless thousands of years” and “ageless as sun”: Ibid.
“great antiquity”: Ibid., 78.
“a little better perspective on human problems”: Ibid., 62.
“larger diverse community”: Souder, On a Farther Shore, 44.
“interplay”: Ibid., 89.
“is connected”: Ruse, Michael, The Gaia Hypothesis: Science on a Pagan Planet (Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2013), 134.
“all technology was progress”: Gould, Kira, and Lance Hosey, Women in Green (Washington, D.C.: Ecotone Press, 2007), 10.
“civic responsibility” and “Christian motherhood”: Lear, Rachel Carson, 10.
“city boy” and “developer”: Ibid., 12.
“intricate design of the creator”: Ibid., 14.
“the only man I knew who would steal”: Ibid., 23.
“stern-looking Mrs. Carson”: Ibid., 21.
“slyly observant”: Souder, On a Farther Shore, 29.
“large bosomy woman”: Lear, Rachel Carson, 28.
“intellect” and “stamina”: Ibid., 43.
“all life was interconnected” and “holistic”: Souder, On a Farther Shore, 34.
“I have gone dead”: Lear, Rachel Carson, 39.
“silver slippers”: Souder, On a Farther Shore, 36.
“glorious time”: Ibid., 36.
“Miss Skinker was a perfect”: Ibid.
“clung to Rachel” and “looked ill”: Lear, Rachel Carson, 71.
“seated at the table” and “I don’t have time”: Souder, On a Farther Shore, 48.
“I’ve never seen a word of yours”: Brooks, Paul, The House of Life: Rachel Carson at Work (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1972), 20.
“extremely shy”: Ibid., 71.
“more dirt than had been dug out”: Souder, On a Farther Shore, 98.
“swirling murk”: Carlson, Avis D., The New Republic, from Wikipedia, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Sunday_(storm).
“A howling wilderness”: Nash, Roderick, Wilderness and the American Mind, rev. ed. (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1973), 32.
“permanent contributions” and “harnessed, controlled”: Souder, On a Farther Shore, 53.
“control”; “rebalance”; and “more friendly to modern man”: Ibid., 99.
“For wolves” and “only a matter of time”: Ibid., 101.
“The greedy mills”: Nash, Wilderness and the American Mind, 97.
“promote manly sport”: Thomas, Evan, The War Lovers: Roosevelt, Lodge, Hearst, and the Rush to Empire, 1898 (New York: Little, Brown, 2010), 53.
“vigorous manliness”: Nash, Wilderness and the American Mind, 150.
“rational laws and exploitable”: Belasco, Warren J., Appetite for Change: How the Counterculture Took On the Food Industry (Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 2007), 39.
“of a general sort” and “the material rather took”: Souder, On a Farther Shore, 67.
“I don’t think it will do”: Lear, Rachel Carson, 81.
“uncommonly eloquent” and “fire the imagination”: Ibid., 86–87.
“everything else followed”: Brooks, The House of Life, 30.
“If the underwater traveler”: Carson, Lost Woods, 8.
“Individual elements are lost”: Souder, On a Farther Shore, 72.
“continuum”: Ibid., 68.
“There is poetry here”: Lear, Rachel Carson, 104.
“so skillfully written”: Ibid.
“lyrical beauty” and “faultless science”: Ibid., 105.
“the world received the event”: Ibid.
“that was home to twenty”: Souder, On a Farther Shore, 7.
“tempered by grave”: Ibid.
“excessive nervousness, loss of appetite”: Ibid., 8.
“white or tinted”: Carson, Rachel, Silent Spring (New York: Houghton Mifflin, 2002), 174.
“impregnated” and “pocket-sized”: Ibid., 175.
“electric vaporizing device” and “bomb”: Souder, On a Farther Shore, 9.
“infallibility of material ingenuity”: Wilson, E. O., afterword to Carson, Silent Spring, 358.
“acres of tract houses”: Isserman, Maurice, and Michael Kazin, America Divided: The Civil War of the 1960s (New York: Oxford University Press, 2000), 10.
“team player”: Halberstam, David, The Fifties (New York: Ballantine, 1993), 488.
“place Adolf Hitler’s head”: Steingraber, Sandra, in Matthiessen, Peter, ed., Courage for the Earth: Writers, Scientists, and Activists Celebrate the Life and Writing of Rachel Carson (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2007), 54.
“war on insects”: Lear, Rachel Carson, 119.
“previously unthinkable”: Coontz, Stephanie, A Strange Stirring: The Feminine Mystique and American Women at the Dawn of the 1960s (New York: Basic Books, 2011), 47.
Ladies’ Home Journal even went so far: This and other details about women’s employment during the war from Halberstam, The Fifties, 588.
“A mother already”: Coontz, A Strange Stirring, 47.
“rebuild her husband’s self-esteem”: Ibid., 49.
“To a populace whose forebears”: Wilson, afterword to Carson, Silent Spring, 358.
“I’m definitely in”: Brooks, The House of Life, 76.
“well ordered” and “know where she was going”: Lear, Rachel Carson, 130.
“were often more pungent”: Brooks, The House of Life, 78.
“Nothing could pass” and “Intransigent official ways”: Ibid.
“her qualities of zest”: Ibid., 77.
“serious consequences”: Souder, On a Farther Shore, 113.
“could conceivably do more damage”: Ibid., 114.
“first hand”: Lear, Rachel Carson, 119.
“Practically at my backdoor”: Ibid., 118–19.
“serial tragedy” and “repeatedly squandered”: Souder, On a Farther Shore, 123.
“in isolation”: Ibid.
“Wildlife, water, forests”: Brooks, The House of Life, 101.
“conqueror of the land community”: Nash, Wilderness and the American Mind, 197.
“a biotic community”: Ibid., 196.
“A thing is right”: Ibid., 197.
“was in charge of humanity”: Souder, On a Farther Shore, 125.
“We fancy that industry supports”: Nash, Wilderness and the American Mind, 198–99.
“We are only fellow-voyageurs”: Ibid., 195–96.
“entirely synthetic”: Ibid., 196.
“something about her”: Brooks, The House of Life, 97.
“put herself in the role”: Lear, Rachel Carson, 141.
“always attentive, always”: Brooks, The House of Life, 98.
“got away from being”: Ibid.
“ecological consciousness”: Lear, Rachel Carson, 150.
“that if you jumped”: Ibid., 134.
“sharp, staccato cries”: Carson, Lost Woods, 36.
“The gulls go so high”: Lear, Rachel Carson, 135.
“Suddenly the silken sheet”: Carson, Lost Woods, 36–37.
“whooshing sounds” and “diving experiences”: Souder, On a Farther Shore, 136.
“Despite everything”: Brooks, The House of Life, 119.
“None of the present”: Ibid.
“Not a single walk” and “Then we shall”: Ibid., 119–20.
“I don’t like Miss Carson’s”: Souder, On a Farther Shore, 140.
“If I’m not solidly”: Ibid., 146.
“small cyst or tumor”: Ibid., 143.
“The operation will probably” and “get it over”: Ibid.
“the most marvelous”: Lear, Rachel Carson, 200.
“hypnotic” and “biblical sweep”: Ibid., 204.
“one of the most beautiful”: Souder, On a Farther Shore, 153.
“write what is a first-rate”: Lear, Rachel Carson, 206.
“half way between” and “a superb book”: Souder, On a Farther Shore, 154.
“he had always been”: Brooks, The House of Life, 132.
“both bold and feminine”: Souder, On a Farther Shore, 156.
“Apparently there are few”: Ibid.
“pity that the book’s”: Ibid., 153.
“backbone”; “just plain hard slogging”; and “exceedingly technical”: Ibid., 150.
“almost unimaginable presence”: Tytell, John, Naked Angels: The Lives and Literature of the Beat Generation (New York: McGraw-Hill, 1976), 8.
“I’m pleased to have”: Brooks, The House of Life, 126.
“I admit I felt hardly”: Ibid., 131.
“We live in a scientific”: Carson, Lost Woods, 91.
“Perhaps if we reversed”: Ibid., 92.
“Mankind has gone very”: Ibid., 161–64.
“the more clearly we can focus”: Ibid., 163.
“charming and thoughtful”: Carson, Rachel, Always, Rachel: The Letters of Rachel Carson and Dorothy Freeman, 1952–1964, ed. Martha Freeman (Boston: Beacon Press, 1995), 3.
“tiny” and “wistful expression”: Souder, On a Farther Shore, 173.
“Dear Dorothy”: Carson, Always, Rachel, 10.
“disappointment”: Souder, On a Farther Shore, 177.
“stepping off the train” and “going mad”: Carson, Always, Rachel, 12.
“We didn’t plan it this”: Souder, On a Farther Shore, 179.
“the sweet tenderness”: Carson, Always, Rachel, 15.
“Dorothy had sensed the same”: Souder, On a Farther Shore, 179.
“the thirteen hours”: Ibid.
“little oasis of peace” and “truly perfect”: Carson, Always, Rachel, 15.
“not a single thing”: Ibid.
“craziness”: Ibid., 18.
“general and newsy”: Souder, On a Farther Shore, 180.
“apples”: Freeman, Martha, editor’s preface, in ibid., xvii.
“put in the strongbox”: Souder, On a Farther Shore, 180.
“white hyacinth for his soul” and “the Hyacinth Letter”: Ibid., 181.
“over-concentrating”: Ibid., 185.
“overarching narrative”: Ibid., 186.
“As I write of it”: Brooks, The House of Life, 158.
“having taken so long”: Souder, On a Farther Shore, 190.
“How blind I was not”: Carson, Always, Rachel, 26.
“each progressive stage”: Souder, On a Farther Shore, 191.
“But, oh darling, I want”: Carson, Always, Rachel, 26.
“stardust”: Souder, On a Farther Shore, 191.
“symphony”: Carson, Always, Rachel, 41.
“the Hundred Hours” and “Maytime”: Souder, On a Farther Shore, 192.
“Darling, you and I”: Ibid., 196.
“one great love”: Ibid., 201.
“out of range”: Ibid., 198.
“no regrets” and “a lovely interlude”: Carson, Always, Rachel, 76.
“Sex seems not to have been”: Souder, On a Farther Shore, 199.
“existed mainly on paper”: Ibid.
“lucid yet poetic” and “direct crystal clear prose”: Lear, Rachel Carson, 275.
“toppled over like”: Ibid., 293.
“openly hostile”: Ibid., 301.
“harmless shower”: Ibid., 314.
“gaping” and “splayed claws”: Brooks, The House of Life, 232.
“The testers must have”: Ibid.
“undemocratic and probably”: Lear, Rachel Carson, 314.
“biodynamic gardening”: Ruse, The Gaia Hypothesis, 126.
“a digestive invalid”: Lear, Rachel Carson, 319.
“utmost concern”: Souder, On a Farther Shore, 276.
“lively as 17 crickets” and “hold him down”: Lear, Rachel Carson, 300.
“harder still”: Souder, On a Farther Shore, 278.
“But I have been mentally blocked”: Carson, Always, Rachel, 248–49.
“experts” and “organics”: Ruse, The Gaia Hypothesis, 136.
“You are my chief clipping”: Ibid., 134.
“surprise witness” and “convinced”: Souder, On a Farther Shore, 284.
“testes and ovaries”: Carson, Silent Spring, 109.
“a heavy body burden” and “poison used”: Souder, On a Farther Shore, 287.
“rain of death” and “what of other lives”: Matthiessen, Peter, “Introduction,” Courage for the Earth, 12.
“Poor little fellow”: Lear, Rachel Carson, 337.
“It is an amusing fact”: Brooks, The House of Life, 244.
“a quarter of a billion dollars”: Carson, Silent Spring, 17.
“harmless” and “people shopping or”: Ibid., 90.
“harmless to humans and will not”: Ibid.
“severe diarrhea, vomiting”: Ibid.
“nausea, vomiting, chills” and “to something else”: Ibid., 91.
“soaked from head to toe”: Souder, On a Farther Shore, 258.
“slow, cumulative and hard-to-identify”: Brooks, The House of Life, 244.
“every child born today”: Ibid.
“showed some content of DDT”: Ibid.
“also scattered evidence”: Ibid., 245.
“psychological angle to all”: Ibid., 241.
“strange future” and “made her feel ill”: Souder, On a Farther Shore, 268.
“man-made ugliness” and “trend toward a perilously”: Horowitz, Daniel, The Anxieties of Affluence: Critiques of American Consumer Culture, 1939–1979 (Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 2004), 153–54.
“commercial schemes”: Ibid., 154.
“Beauty—and all the values”: Ibid.
“It is one of the ironies”: Ibid., 153.
“farther and farther into experiments”: Carson, Lost Woods, 94.
“deeply disturbing”: Souder, On a Farther Shore, 268.
“minimally radioactive fallout” and “as little as two years”: Ibid., 293.
“over a more concentrated area”: Ibid.
“subtle genetic mutations” and “was far below”: Ibid., 294.
“a strange and chilling thing”: Ibid., 11.
“Castle Bravo”: Ibid., 229.
“The sun is rising in the west!”: Halberstam, The Fifties, 346.
“It’s an atomic bomb”: Ibid.
“bleeding gums, falling white blood cell”: Souder, On a Farther Shore, 231.
“hepatitis”: Halberstam, The Fifties, 348.
“sufficiently radioactive”: Souder, On a Farther Shore, 232.
“American government and people”: Ibid.
“secondary contamination”: Ibid., 234.
“upper-level wind currents”: Ibid., 235.
“unbearably frustrating”: Ibid., 229.
“unshakable foundation” and “violent controversies”: Brooks, The House of Life, 257–58.
“weight of evidence”: Souder, On a Farther Shore, 299.
“some sort of thyroid”: Ibid., 300.
“Sometimes I wonder whether”: Lear, Rachel Carson, 365.
“quite fascinating”: Brooks, The House of Life, 262.
“by far the most difficult”: Lear, Witness for Nature, 365.
“too complicated”: Ibid.
“otherwise at the end”: Souder, On a Farther Shore, 308.
“suspicious enough” and “a precautionary measure”: Lear, Rachel Carson, 367.
“talked her way out”: Souder, On a Farther Shore, 309.
“hospital adventure”: Ibid., 308.
“There need be no”: Ibid., 309.
“special friends” and “I suppose it’s a futile”: Lear, Rachel Carson, 367.
“In a sense, all this publicity”: Ibid., 375.
“a curious, hard swelling”: Ibid., 378.
“after being so sure”: Souder, On a Farther Shore, 312.
“I know now that”: Lear, Rachel Carson, 368.
“I have a great deal”: Ibid., 380.
“You spoke of the moonlight”: Carson, Always, Rachel, 333–36.
“never been sicker”: Souder, On a Farther Shore, 314.
“devastated” and “slumped and sobbing”: Ibid.
“I am working late at night”: Brooks, The House of Life, 269–70.
“This is William Shawn”: Carson, Always, Rachel, 394.
“a brilliant achievement” and “literature, full of beauty”: Ibid.
“Every perfectly ordinary little”: Ibid., 404.
“reluctantly restarted”: Souder, On a Farther Shore, 11.
“doubled”: Ibid., 326.
“in the heart of America”: Carson, Silent Spring, 1.
“strange blight”: Ibid., 2.
“as though swept by fire” and “fallen like snow”: Ibid., 3.
“strange stillness”: Ibid., 2.
“No witchcraft, no enemy action”: Ibid., 3.
“Communist sympathies” and “peace-nut”: Souder, On a Farther Shore, 331.
“live without birds” and “but not without business”: Ibid.
“heedless overuse”: Ibid., 332.
“wholly ignorant”: Carson, Silent Spring, 12.
“leaped aboard the pesticide”: Caro, Robert, “Pesticides: The Hidden Poisons,” Newsday, August 20, 1962.
“famed biologist and author”: Ibid.
“panic and hysteria” and “pesticides provided”: Souder, On a Farther Shore, 343.
“nationwide surveillance”: Ibid., 349.
“keep pace” and “blanket”: Ibid.
“the most valuable” and “this formidable opponent”: Lear, Rachel Carson, 420.
“the sort that will help turn”: Ibid.
“all of a piece” and “Thalidomide and pesticides”: Ibid., 412.
“a realist as well as a biologist”: Souder, On a Farther Shore, 355.
“The basic fallacy”: Ibid.
“timely”: Ibid., 356.
“the most important chronicle”: Lear, Rachel Carson, 419.
“dangerous, long-term” and “Miss Carson’s book”: Souder, On a Farther Shore, 4.
“sinister parties” and “east-curtain parity”: Ibid., 346.
“America’s food supply” and “obviously the rantings”: Ibid., 357.
“unfair, one-sided and hysterically”: Brooks, The House of Life, 297.
not “a professional scientist”: Lear, Rachel Carson, 430.
“published in peer-reviewed journals” and “no academic”: Ibid.
“bird and bunny lover” and “spinster”: Lear, Linda, Introduction to Carson, Silent Spring, xvii.
“In short, [she] was a woman” and “overstepped the bounds”: Ibid.
“I don’t know of a housewife”: Lear, Rachel Carson, 413.
“illegal quantities of penicillin”: Souder, On a Farther Shore, 292.
“shared biology of all living things”: Ibid., 350.
“easily and irrevocably”: Griswold, Eliza, “How ‘Silent Spring’ Ignited the Environmental Movement,” New York Times, September 21, 2012.
“delicate and destructible” and “capable of striking back”: Carson, Silent Spring, 297.
“from the moment of conception until”: Ibid., 15.
“exact and inescapable”: Ibid., 208.
“We are rightly appalled”: Ibid., 37.
“our genetic heritage, our link”: Ibid., 208.
“The control of nature”: Ibid., 297.
“Can anyone believe it is possible”: Ibid., 7–8.
“The question is whether any civilization”: Ibid., 99.
“nothing must get in the way”: Ibid., 85.
“Lulled by the soft sell”: Ibid., 174.
“When the public tried to hold”: Ibid., 13.
“Man has lost the capacity”: Horowitz, The Anxieties of Affluence, 155.
“The head and neck were outstretched”: Carson, Silent Spring, 100.
“And what of human beings?” and “one turns away”: Ibid., 126–27.
“of not speaking out”: Gould and Hosey, Women in Green, 21.
“working with or working against”: Horowitz, The Anxieties of Affluence, 158.
“Every once in a while”: Griswold, “How ‘Silent Spring’ Ignited the Environmental Movement.”
“No man who owns his house”: Isserman and Kazin, America Divided, 11.
“legislative monument”: Dickstein, Morris, Gates of Eden: American Culture in the Sixties (New York: Basic Books, 1977), 26.
“These have been years” and “when one could hardly”: Mailer, Norman, quoted in ibid., 52.
“long-term health”: Lear, Introduction, in Carson, Silent Spring, xiv.
“vain chase for satisfaction”: Horowitz, The Anxieties of Affluence, 160.
“in the interest of the export”: Souder, On a Farther Shore, 363.
“a menacing shadow”: Carson, Always, Rachel, 414.
“all the well-known” and “said things it did not”: Souder, On a Farther Shore, 365.
“serve the gods of profit”: Lear, Rachel Carson, 426.
“When the scientific organization speaks”: Ibid.
“It has been such a mixed year”: Carson, Always, Rachel, 420.
“crowded”: Souder, On a Farther Shore, 368.
“Because of you”: Ibid.
“light-hearted”: Carson, Always, Rachel, 435.
“an invalid’s life”: Ibid.
“The main things I want to say”: Ibid., 437.
“too stern” and “relax” and “gentle nature”: Souder, On a Farther Shore, 369.
“their friends in the chemical”: Ibid., 369.
“a little easier for you”: Lear, Rachel Carson, 442.
“I have had a rich life”: Ibid.
“If man were to faithfully”: Souder, On a Farther Shore, 374.
“We still talk in terms of”: Brooks, The House of Life, 319.
“important”: Lear, Rachel Carson, 450.
“the most controversial” and “a national quarrel”: Souder, On a Farther Shore, 380.
“go down in history”: Carson, Always, Rachel, 461.
“things I need to say to you”: Ibid., 456.
“You are the lady who”: Lear, Rachel Carson, 3.
“Our heedless and destructive acts”: Ibid., 454.
“could have questioned her integrity”: Ibid.
“rare person who was passionately”: Ibid., 4.
“Would you help me search”: Carson, Always, Rachel, 467.
“drawn by some invisible force”: Ibid.
“It occurred to me”: Ibid., 468.
“For ourselves, the measure”: Ibid.
“I’ve been x-rayed”: Lear, Rachel Carson, 459.
“middle-aged, arthritis-crippled”: Ibid., 464.
“as sick as she had ever been”: Ibid., 465.
“shock, dismay, and revulsion”: Carson, Always, Rachel, 497.
“out of bed again” and “lovely”: Souder, On a Farther Shore, 387.
“I had not, until recently”: Carson, Always, Rachel, 506.
“something of a miracle”: Lear, Rachel Carson, 475.
“a brilliant white light”: Ibid., 479.
CHAPTER 2: JANE JACOBS
“a bloodletting”: Flint, Anthony, Wrestling with Moses (New York: Random House, 2009), 23.
“were only getting worse”: Alexiou, Alice Sparberg, Jane Jacobs: Urban Visionary (New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers University Press, 2006), 45.
“Make no little plans”: Ibid., 38.
“a whole city in the free air”: Ibid., 37.
“We must kill the street!”: Berman, Marshall, All That Is Solid Melts into Air: The Experience of Modernity (New York: Penguin, 1988), 168.
“Cafés and places of recreation”: Ibid., 167.
“moving spirit of modernity”: Ibid., 294.
“dissonances”: Ibid., 169.
“new type of street” and “machine for traffic”: Ibid., 167.
“First he took me to a street”: Goldberger, Paul, “Tribute to Jane Jacobs,” speech at the Greenwich Village Society for Historic Preservation, October 3, 2006, available at www.paulgoldberger.com.
“Where are the people?”: Flint, Wrestling with Moses, 20.
“They don’t appreciate these things”: Alexiou, Jane Jacobs: Urban Visionary, 40.
“Garden City”: Jacobs, Jane, The Death and Life of Great American Cities (1961; repr., New York: Modern Library, 2011), 18–25.
“curtain wall”: Flint, Wrestling with Moses, 21.
“the energy and enthusiasm”: Berman, All That Is Solid Melts into Air, 302.
“one public figure” and “qualified to build”: Ibid.
“quasi-mythological” status: Ibid., 294.
“moving spirit of modernity”: Ibid.
“bloodletting”: Flint, Wrestling with Moses, 23.
“I can remember the people”: Jacobs, The Death and Life of Great American Cities, 15.
“hot, rich reality”: Allen, Max, ed., Ideas That Matter: The Worlds of Jane Jacobs (Toronto: The Ginger Press, 1997), 62.
“Each machine” and “Nobody [was] concerned”: Jacobs, The Death and Life of Great American Cities, 95.
“showed me a way of seeing”: Ibid., 16.
“mountainous open garbage dump”: Baker, Kevin, “City of Water,” New York Times, October 12, 2013.
“Women of the Moose”: Allen, Ideas That Matter, 3.
a station called Christopher Street: Kunstler, James Howard, “An Interview with Jane Jacobs, Godmother of the American City,” Metropolis, March 2001, 4.
“I think that’s the hardest time”: Allen, Ideas That Matter, 12.
the “cool, sweet-smelling shops”: Jacobs, Jane, “Flowers Come to Town,” Vogue, February 15, 1937, as excerpted in Allen, Ideas That Matter, 35.
“twenty thousand dozen”: Ibid., 36.
“conclude their dickering”: Ibid., 35.
“All the ingredients”: Ibid.
“Not a sound is heard” and “the proceedings are baffling”: Jacobs, Jane, “Diamonds in the Rough,” Vogue, 1937, as excerpted in Allen, Ideas That Matter, 36.
“a cross between hocus-pocus”: Ibid.
“Upstairs, in small light rooms over the stores”: Ibid., 36–37.
“Outside on the Bowery” and “raucous chaos”: Ibid., 37.
“I would think”: Flint, Wrestling with Moses, 8.
“Look at that oak tree”: Allen, Ideas That Matter, 14.
“She was a free spirit”: Ibid., 17.
“very good questions” and “too theoretical”: Ibid., 14.
“I learned a great deal”: Ibid., 3.
“never to promise to do anything”: Ibid., 16.
“proselytizing” and “outlaw”: Ibid.
“It gave me the feeling”: Ibid.
“I was very suspicious”: Ibid., 26.
“I am proud that my grandfather”: Ibid., 170.
“outlandish” and “respectable law and opinion”: Ibid.
“Perhaps it is partly because” and “I was brought up”: Ibid.
“women’s rights and women’s brains”: Ibid.
“Fortunately, my [high school] grades”: Ibid., 4.
“Ex-Scranton Girl Helps”: Flint, Wrestling with Moses, 10.
“entertainment to which he”: Alexiou, Jane Jacobs: Urban Visionary, 24.
“loose and untrue allegations”: Ibid.
“Cupid really shot that arrow”: Flint, Wrestling with Moses, 12.
“could spell molybdenum”: Allen, Ideas That Matter, 12.
“The click-clack”: Broms-Jacobs, Caitlin, ed., Jane at Home (Toronto: Estate of Jane Jacobs, 2016), 6.
“In my generation women”: Allen, Ideas That Matter, 23.
“the father of grassroots”: Flint, Wrestling with Moses, 16.
“piss in”: Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saul_Alinsky.
“power to the people” and “anti-government rhetoric”: Flint, Wrestling with Moses, 16.
“troublemaker” and “chauvinist”: Ibid.
“Upon first reading the questions”: Allen, Ideas That Matter, 169.
“I was brought up to believe” and “I was taught”: Ibid., 169–70.
“I abhor”; “I believe in control”; and “current fear of radical ideas”: Ibid., 178–79.
“mania for internal security”: Dickstein, Morris, Gates of Eden: American Culture in the Sixties (New York: Basic Books, 1977), 27.
“Remarkable collection of angels”: Isserman, Maurice, and Michael Kazin, America Divided: The Civil War of the 1960s (New York: Oxford University Press, 2000), 138.
“poetic drifter”: Ibid.
“a declaration of independence”: Ibid., 140.
“Moloch whose eyes”: Berman, All That Is Solid Melts into Air, 310.
“authentic” and “alternate routes”: Isserman and Kazin, America Divided, 140–41.
“To dance beneath the diamond sky”: Ibid., 141.
“You’ll be our schools and hospitals expert”: Alexiou, Jane Jacobs: Urban Visionary, 34.
“I was utterly baffled at first”: Allen, Ideas That Matter, 4.
“Sometimes you learn more”: Jacobs, Jane, “The Missing Link in City Redevelopment,” talk before the conference on Urban Design at Harvard College, as excerpted in Allen, Ideas That Matter, 39–40.
“In New York’s East Harlem”: Ibid., 39.
“Planners and architects”: Ibid.
“hand-to-mouth”; “institutions”; and “vestigial”: Ibid.
“Do you see”; “in the new scheme”; and “This is a ludicrous”: Ibid.
“lively old parts” and “Notice the stores”: Ibid., 40.
“at least as vital”; “to respect—in the deepest”; and “We are greatly misled”: Ibid.
“tower-in-the-park”: Alexiou, Jane Jacobs: Urban Visionary, 34.
“Your worst opponents” and “keep hammering”: Allen, Ideas That Matter, 95.
“a most inappropriate choice”: Alexiou, Jane Jacobs: Urban Visionary, 61.
“These projects will not revitalize”: Jacobs, Jane, “Downtown Is for People,” Fortune Classic, 1958, Fortune.com; available at http://features.blogs.fortune.cnn.com.
“Look what your girl did”: Alexiou, Jane Jacobs: Urban Visionary, 63.
“one standard solution”: Jacobs, “Downtown Is for People.”
“the gaiety, the wonder”: Ibid.
“Urban ecosystems” and “fragile”: Jacobs, The Death and Life of Great American Cities, xxvi.
“a world-class”: Flint, Wrestling with Moses, 27.
“This cultural superblock”: Jacobs, “Downtown Is for People.”
“My God, who is this crazy dame?” and “piece of built-in rigor mortis”: Flint, Wrestling with Moses, 28.
“hubris”: Fulford, Robert, “Abattoir for Sacred Cows,” in Allen, Ideas That Matter, 7.
“elitist, top down policies” and “central control”: Gratz, Roberta Brandes, The Battle for Gotham (New York: Nation Books, 2010), xxii.
“regenerative potential; “static form”; and “process”: Ibid., xxiii.
“top-down command economy” and “the industrial model”: Ibid., xxvi.
“interconnectedness and fragility of”: Ibid., xxiv.
“Marshall Plan”: Flint, Wrestling with Moses, 63.
“modern construction and wider streets”: Ibid., 62.
“Five minutes from Wall Street”: Ibid., 55–56.
“theater in the round” and “who [were] the spectators”: Jacobs, The Death and Life of Great American Cities, 105.
“a bewildering sprinkling”: Ibid.
“the beats, the hips”: Kramer, Jane, Off Washington Square (New York: Duell, Sloan and Pearce, 1963), 11.
“in perpetuity for the public”: Flint, Wrestling with Moses, 68.
“bathmat”: Ibid., 73.
“if necessary”: Ibid., 78.
“We weren’t trying to embrace”: Ibid., 79.
“People knew what they were getting”: Ibid.
“there should be no negotiation”: Ibid., 80.
“absurd” and “a process of mere sausage”: Ibid.
“The attack on Washington Square”: Ibid.
“I consider it would be far”: Ibid., 81.
“an island of quietness”: Ibid.
“Rebellion is brewing in America”: Ibid.
“borrowed ways of thinking”: Menand, Louis, “It Took a Village,” The New Yorker, January 5, 2009.
“New Journalism”: Ibid.
“It is our view”: Wolf, Dan, “The Park,” Village Voice, November 9, 1955.
“awful bunch of artists”: Flint, Wrestling with Moses, 84.
“little soldier” and “little elves”: Ibid.
“It’s for picketing”: Ibid., 85.
“She would bring the three children”: Ibid.
“Fit To Be Tied”: Allen, Ideas That Matter, 70.
“There is something to be said”: Flint, Wrestling with Moses, 85.
“some rare public testimony” and “Save the Square”: Ibid., 86.
“Washington Square Park”: Ibid.
“There is nobody against this”: Kunstler, “An Interview with Jane Jacobs,” 8.
“Square Warriors”: Flint, Wrestling with Moses, 87.
“There seem to be two dominant”: Allen, Ideas That Matter, 47.
“Where it works at all well”: Ibid., 48.
“You sort of fell in love with”: Flint, Wrestling with Moses, 91.
“rebuilding of cities”: Jacobs, The Death and Life of Great American Cities, 4.
“a little man in a plain brown overcoat” and “a crowd that evolved”: Ibid., 53.
“blind-eyed” and “Eyes on the street”: Ibid., 57.
“business lunchers”: Ibid., 52.
“was the scene of an intricate”: Ibid., 50.
“never repeats itself”: Ibid.
“Nobody was going to allow”: Jacobs, Jane, “Violence in the City Streets,” Harper’s Magazine, September 1961.
“different people”: Jacobs, The Death and Life of Great American Cities, 53.
“Impersonal city streets”: Ibid., 57.
“Lowly, unpurposeful and random”: Ibid., 72.
“marvels of dullness”: Ibid., 4.
“Project prairies”: Ibid., 186.
“to make the mistake of attempting”: Ibid., 373.
“trial and error”: Ibid., 6.
“Incurious about the reasons”: Ibid.
If you moved people: Gratz, The Battle for Gotham, xxviii.
“dangerous nonsense”: Allen, Ideas That Matter, 6.
“Intricate minglings of”: Jacobs, The Death and Life of Great American Cities, 222.
“have common fundamental principles”: Ibid., xxvi.
“Ask a houser”: Ibid., 90.
“In defective city neighborhoods”: Ibid., 87–88.
“run a gauntlet of bullies” and “pure daydreaming”: Ibid., 77.
“I know Greenwich Village”: Ibid., 85.
“matriarchy” and “occasional playground appearance”: Ibid., 83–84.
“Well-established, high-turnover” and “necessary to the safety”: Ibid., 188.
“there is no leeway for such chancy”: Ibid.
“Old ideas can sometimes”: Ibid.
“Time makes the high building”: Ibid., 189.
“ingenious adaptations” and “town-house parlor that became a craftsman”: Ibid., 194.
“things that are inherently organic”: Gould, Kira, and Lance Hosey, Women in Green (Washington, D.C.: Ecotone Press, 2007), 28.
“Two Blighted Downtown Areas”: Flint, Wrestling with Moses, 99.
“inane, anti-city forces”: Allen, Ideas That Matter, 4.
“neat a case study” and “intellectual idiocies”: Ibid.
“just what you would expect”: Alexiou, Jane Jacobs: Urban Visionary, 99.
“community renewal”: Flint, Wrestling with Moses, 102.
“single function”: Ibid., 101.
“the new era for urban renewal”: Ibid., 102.
“routine request” and “a project”: Ibid., 104.
“was the opening fraud”: Ibid., 105.
“The aim of the committee” and “we will look for”: Ibid.
“participating citizens”: Alexiou, Jane Jacobs: Urban Visionary, 101.
“The city wants our houses”: Flint, Wrestling with Moses, 109.
“got information almost sooner”: Ibid., 108.
“a public character”: Alexiou, Jane Jacobs: Urban Visionary, 102.
“But we were, everybody”: Ibid.
“a deficiency” and “indicators of blight”: Flint, Wrestling with Moses, 111.
“They brought this proposal out”: Breyer, Sam Pope, “‘Villagers’ Seek to Halt Renewal,” New York Times, March 4, 1961, 11.
“We couldn’t go two”: Chapman, Priscilla, “City Critic in Favor of Old Neighborhoods,” New York Herald Tribune, March 4, 1961.
“precisely because of what was valuable”: Flint, Wrestling with Moses, 110.
“had gotten all their ducks”: Alexiou, Jane Jacobs: Urban Visionary, 99.
“we decided to support”: Breyer, Sam Pope, “Project Foe Hits ‘Village’ Group,” New York Times, March 14, 1961, 26.
“a puppet” and “invented and nurtured”: Ibid.
“intend to level the area”: Flint, Wrestling with Moses, 112.
“moles”: Alexiou, Jane Jacobs: Urban Visionary, 106.
“only clearance and redevelopment”: Flint, Wrestling with Moses, 112.
“remove the slum designation” and “complicit in the city’s plans”: Ibid., 109.
“comply with the requirement”: Ibid., 113.
“An irresponsible boondoggle”: Alexiou, Jane Jacobs: Urban Visionary, 103.
“Years before the body counts”: Flint, Wrestling with Moses, 114.
“The backbone of renewal”: Alexiou, Jane Jacobs: Urban Visionary, 104.
“renewed commitment”; “discredited their offices”; and “They don’t want”: Flint, Wrestling with Moses, 114.
“I want to say for the record”: Ibid., 115.
“must conform to Village tradition”: Alexiou, Jane Jacobs: Urban Visionary, 104.
“pious platitudes”: Flint, Wrestling with Moses, 107.
“If the mayor cares”: Alexiou, Jane Jacobs: Urban Visionary, 105.
“deeply concerned and sympathetic”; “shelve”; “earnest consideration”; and “independence”: Flint, Wrestling with Moses, 115.
“Down with Felt!”: “Villagers’ Near-Riot Jars City Planning Commission,” New York Herald Tribune, October 19, 1961. Reprinted in Allen, Ideas That Matter, 68.
“double-crossed”: Flint, Wrestling with Moses, 116.
“By this reprehensible”: “Villagers’ Near-Riot Jars City Planning Commission.”
“You are not an elected”: Flint, Wrestling with Moses, 117.
“Your name will be remembered” and “You belong with Khrushchev”: Ibid.
“This is the most disgraceful demonstration”: Allen, Ideas That Matter, 68.
“You will be obliged to arrest”: Flint, Wrestling with Moses, 117.
“no more hearings”: Ibid.
“near riot”; “ignorant, neurotic”; “riot tactics”; and “an attack on the democratic”: Alexiou, Jane Jacobs: Urban Visionary, 105.
“it was not the protesters”: Flint, Wrestling with Moses, 118.
“We had been ladies and gentlemen”: Asbury, Edith Evans, “Deceit Charged in Village Plan,” New York Times, October 20, 1961, 68.
“creepers”: Flint, Wrestling with Moses, 119.
“It’s the same old story”: Ibid., 120.
“redevelopment”: Allen, Ideas That Matter, 49.
“a pioneering act”: Flint, Wrestling with Moses, 121.
“Joan of Arc”: Ibid., 128.
“a sort of Madame Defarge”: Allen, Ideas That Matter, 50.
“madonna misericordia”: Kramer, Off Washington Square, 58–59.
“There seems to be a notion”: Allen, Ideas That Matter, 50.
“explosive”: Alexiou, Jane Jacobs: Urban Visionary, 70.
“The City Planners Are Ravaging”: Flint, Wrestling with Moses, 121.
“This book is an attack”: Jacobs, The Death and Life of Great American Cities, 3.
“The economic rationale”: Ibid., 5.
“monotonous, unnourishing gruel”: Ibid., 7.
“hammered away at the bad old city”: Ibid., 20.
“thoroughly physical places”: Ibid., 95.
“engineering models for traffic”: Gratz, The Battle for Gotham, xxvii.
“innate functioning order”: Jacobs, The Death and Life of Great American Cities, 14.
“There is a quality even meaner”: Ibid., 15.
“It is hard for muddled”: Kent, Leticia, “More Babies Needed, Not Fewer,” Vogue, August 15, 1970.
“statistical city”: Gould and Hosey, Women in Green, 25.
“with its obvious elements of regimentation”: Allen, Ideas That Matter, 84.
“repression of all plans”: Jacobs, The Death and Life of Great American Cities, 25.
“paternalistic” and “great informal experts”: Gould and Hosey, Women in Green, 25–26.
“People who get marked”: Jacobs, The Death and Life of Great American Cities, 5.
“In the form of statistics”: Gould and Hosey, Women in Green, 25.
“same universal principles”: Ibid., 27.
“have marvelous innate”: Jacobs, The Death and Life of Great American Cities, 447.
“contain the seeds of their own”: Ibid., 448.
“is not a status quo” and “it is fluid, ever-shifting”: Carson, Rachel, Silent Spring (New York: Houghton Mifflin, 2002), 246.
“a biological view of the built”: Gratz, The Battle for Gotham, xxiv.
“The alternative isn’t to develop”: Gould and Hosey, Women in Green, 27.
“brashly impressive tour de force”: Rodwin, Lloyd, “Neighbors Are Needed,” New York Times Book Review, November 5, 1961, 10.
“Seminal”; “a major work”; and “rare books that make”: Allen, Ideas That Matter, 5.
“a revolutionary and revelatory”: Ibid., 6.
“will have as much impact . . . as the Armory show had on art”: Ibid. (The Armory show of 1913 was the first show of Modernist art in America.)
“It won’t matter that what this author”: Rodwin, “Neighbors Are Needed,” 10
“flawed” and “dangerous”: Flint, Wrestling with Moses, 124.
“Robert Moses . . . has made an art”: Jacobs, The Death and Life of Great American Cities, 131.
“an old sad story” and “The art of negating the power”: Ibid.
“Libelous, intemperate, and inaccurate”: Allen, Ideas That Matter, 97.
“demagogue”: Ibid., 9.
“crank” and “a gadfly”: Ibid., 11.
“wild bohemian” and “anarchist”: Kramer, Off Washington Square, 63.
“misinformed”; “transparent gaps”; and “blind spots”: Alexiou, Jane Jacobs: Urban Visionary, 83.
“blasé misunderstandings of theory” and “congenial”: Ibid., 86.
“Mrs. Jacobs has presented the world”: Allen, Ideas That Matter, 10.
“Unfortunately, this cannot be”: Ibid., 52.
“housewife”: Alexiou, Jane Jacobs: Urban Visionary, 86.
“an angry young woman”: Allen, Ideas That Matter, 96.
“seemingly limited experience”: Ibid., 52.
“mother from Scranton” and “sentimental Hausfrau”: Kramer, Off Washington Square, 63.
“Mistakes in City Planning”: Alexiou, Jane Jacobs: Urban Visionary, 86.
“How have the planners reacted”: Ibid., 85.
“I held my fire for”: Allen, Ideas That Matter, 6.
“sloppy novice” and “schoolgirl howlers”: Flint, Wrestling with Moses, 126.
“She describes her folksy urban place”: Allen, Ideas That Matter, 53.
“Mrs. Jacobs had visited Pompeii”: Flint, Wrestling with Moses, 126.
“where factories nestle beside homes”: Allen, Ideas That Matter, 54.
“sometimes we would drive past”: Alexiou, Jane Jacobs: Urban Visionary, 91.
“Her book had no recipe”: Allen, Ideas That Matter, 17.
“I was interested in process”: Ibid.
“one of the great afflictions”: Kramer, Off Washington Square, 60.
“big with fresh insights”: Alexiou, Jane Jacobs: Urban Visionary, 94.
“I believe now that he felt hurt and betrayed”: Ibid.
“Dear Jane, What have you”: Allen, Ideas That Matter, 58.
“prophet and leader of a great”: Kramer, Off Washington Square, 58–59.
“Forget the big parking garages”: Flint, Wrestling with Moses, 128.
“bleak, miserable, and mean”: Allen, Ideas That Matter, 52.
“is being rebuilt by city haters”: Flint, Wrestling with Moses, 128.
“Planners always want to make a big”: Ibid.
“They are hated almost”: Baldwin, James, Nobody Knows My Name (New York: Vintage, 1961), 63.
“Their administration is insanely”: Ibid., 69.
“This culture with its huge housing”: Kramer, Off Washington Square, 62.
“White residents used Federal Housing”: Hannah-Jones, Nikole, “Choosing a School for My Daughter in a Segregated City,” New York Times Magazine, June 12, 2016.
“often because Negroes”: Flint, Wrestling with Moses, 130.
“deductive”; “imaginative leaps”; and “pursued because”: Allen, Ideas That Matter, 8.
“connection”: Gould and Hosey, Women in Green, 28.
“strong enough to strip bark”: Isserman and Kazin, America Divided, 83.
“We will wear you down by our”: Ibid., 20.
“machine” and “less tangible, sensory”: Marx, Leo, The Machine in the Garden: Technology and the Pastoral Ideal in America (1964; repr., New York: Oxford University Press, 2000), 383.
“put your bodies against”: Ibid., 384.
“unshakable commitment to genocide”: Roszak, Theodore, The Making of a Counter Culture (New York: Doubleday, 1968), 47.
“I like attention paid to my books”: Allen, Ideas That Matter, 26.
“laces” and “spaghetti dish”: Jacobs, The Death and Life of Great American Cities, 367.
“great hardship and suffering”: Flint, Wrestling with Moses, 149.
“hitting us below the belt”: Ibid., 150.
“naysayers taking pot shots”: Ibid., 151.
“Don’t approve this road” and “kill the mad visionaries’”: Ibid.
“the Palaces of Trade”: Ibid., 152.
E. V. Haughwout Building: Huxtable, Ada Louise, “Noted Buildings in Path of Road,” New York Times, July 25, 1965.
“Tiffany of its day”: Flint, Wrestling with Moses, 153.
“cancel land acquisitions”: Ibid., 155.
“The expressway would”: Village Voice, August 30, 1962.
“Every delay gives added hope”: Decision on Expressway Urged; Autoclub Scores Delay by City,” New York Times, July 9, 1962, 33.
“if no feasible relocation”: Flint, Wrestling with Moses, 156.
“outraged at this cat-and-mouse”: Ibid.
“engineering and economic data”: Ibid.
“This isn’t about The New Yorker”: Alexiou, Jane Jacobs: Urban Visionary, 109.
“wonderfully effective letter”: Ibid., 110.
“would be the first serious”: Flint, Wrestling with Moses, 157.
“Except for one old man”: Ibid., 158.
“monstrous and useless folly”: Ibid.
“a piece at a time” and “we’ll be fighting the tentacles”: Village Voice, August 30, 1962.
“The most spectacular”: Alexiou, Jane Jacobs: Urban Visionary, 110.
“We won! Isn’t it” and “You can well imagine”: Flint, Wrestling with Moses, 158.
“The rule of thumb”: Alexiou, Jane Jacobs: Urban Visionary, 111.
“Well, here I have been arrested”: Allen, Ideas That Matter, 72.
“We want Jane”: Kent, Leticia, “Prosecution of the City Performed by Its Inmates,” Village Voice, April 18, 1968.
“It’s interesting the way”: Ibid.
“Thank you, sir”: Ibid.
“errand boys”: Allen, Ideas That Matter, 74.
“Listen to this”: Ibid.
“I’m the prisoner”: Ibid., 15.
“bear no relation”: Flint, Wrestling with Moses, 175.
“The inference seems to be”: Seveso, Richard, “Mrs. Jacobs’s Protest Results in Riot Charge,” New York Times, April 18, 1968.
“I resent, to tell you”: Allen, Ideas That Matter, 22.
“They would have preferred”: Kunstler, “An Interview with Jane Jacobs, Godmother of the American City,”10.
“I don’t make up my mind”: Allen, Ideas That Matter, 159.
“Ideology is narrowing”: Ibid., 23.
“I thought how ironic”: Ibid., 29.
“Take a look at the world”: Kent, “More Babies Needed.”
“see the evolution of the piano”: Allen, Ideas That Matter, 88.
“Everyone talks about the canals of Venice”: Ibid., 89.
“jobs versus environmental”: Ibid., 655.
“vital nearby neighborhood”: Ibid., 200.
“she began by talking”: Ibid., 207.
“Internally, I’m not any”: Ibid., 13.
“It’s a fact of life and also”: Ibid., 27.
“Cities on the whole”: Flint, Wrestling with Moses, 193.
“From this house, in 1961”: Ibid., 195.
CHAPTER 3: JANE GOODALL
“sex, face color, etc.”: Goodall, Jane, Africa in My Blood: An Autobiography in Letters; The Early Years, ed. Dale Peterson (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2000), 171.
“It does seem a long time ago”: Ibid., 186.
“high powered tropical”: Peterson, Dale, Jane Goodall: The Woman Who Redefined Man (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2006), 236.
“life’s mentor”: Goodall, Africa in My Blood, 82.
“Then you should meet”: Goodall, Jane, Reason for Hope (New York: Grand Central, 2000), 44.
“a true giant”: Ibid.
“Admittedly, we don’t meet”: Goodall, Africa in My Blood, 109.
“I remember wondering”: Ibid., 53.
“less likely to arouse”: Peterson, Jane Goodall, 120.
“laughed a lot” and “whirly kind of life”: Ibid., 7.
“touched me only once”: Ibid., 11.
“They need the earth”: Goodall, Reason for Hope, 5.
“melancholic” and “all gray, crumbling stone”: Peterson, Jane Goodall, 16.
“irreducibles”: Thurman, Judith, Isak Dinesen: The Life of a Storyteller (New York: St. Martin’s, 1982), 24.
“original qualities” and “define a mysterious ground”: Ibid., 25.
“a small, disheveled”: Peterson, Jane Goodall, 22.
“a round white object”: Ibid., 23.
“somewhere in France”: Ibid., 25.
“We had tea and still Daddy”: Ibid., 26.
“bawdy”: Ibid., 31.
“advantages” and “I was never, ever told”: Ibid., 29.
“strong, self-disciplined, iron-willed”: Goodall, Reason for Hope, 8.
“a beloved uncle”: Peterson, Jane Goodall, 36.
“separate peace”: Ibid., 29.
“lovely big slow-worm”: Ibid., 39.
“racers”: Goodall, Reason for Hope, 10.
“gently atavistic fascination”: Goodall, Africa in My Blood, 4.
“I read it all”: Peterson, Jane Goodall, 45.
“ecstatically”: Ibid.
“tall, very strict-looking”: Ibid., 53.
“Woke gloomily up to the dreary”: Ibid., 54.
“I suppose that everyone”: Ibid., 55.
“Foul things—stockings” and “my first Champagne cocktail”: Ibid., 59.
“her first girdle, a red”: Ibid.
“rather interesting”: Ibid.
“monotonous”: Goodall, Africa in My Blood, 41.
“a clever girl”: Peterson, Jane Goodall, 71.
“I haven’t given up the journalism”: Goodall, Africa in My Blood, 46.
“just very boring filing”: Peterson, Jane Goodall, 73.
“boredom of this foul job” and “Do you not think”: Ibid., 76.
“a dingy basement room”: Ibid.
“Oh, Sally I am having such a wonderful time”: Ibid., 76–77.
“I have decided, even more”: Goodall, Africa in My Blood, 71–72.
“too settled, too fond”: Peterson, Jane Goodall, 80.
“I have decided that I must”: Goodall, Africa in My Blood, 71–72.
“Right from the moment”: Peterson, Jane Goodall, 92.
“I really do simply adore”: Goodall, Africa in My Blood, 88.
“They are even taller”: Ibid., 91.
“slightly degrading in its effect”: Ibid., 88.
“surprising endurance, [an] iron stomach”: Ibid., 4.
“constitution” and “sensibility”: Ibid.
“spit”: Goodall, Reason for Hope, 45.
“appallingly childish” and “absurd”: Peterson, Jane Goodall, 99.
“a white African”: Goodall, Africa in My Blood, 83.
“missing buttons” and “overloaded”: Peterson, Jane Goodall, 100.
“to stink”: Ibid., 101.
“the whole morning”: Ibid., 102.
“naturally very interested”: Goodall, Africa in My Blood, 93.
“Women came to him”: Peterson, Jane Goodall, 103.
“the third Mrs. Leakey”: Goodall, Africa in My Blood, 85.
“dreadfully familiar”: Ibid., 97.
“a small, lean woman” and “a little distant”: Ibid., 98.
“I hear you might like to come with us to Olduvai”: Peterson, Jane Goodall, 106.
“The great aim”: Goodall, Africa in My Blood, 108.
“rise & fall and are covered”: Ibid., 107.
“grazing herds”: Peterson, Jane Goodall, 109.
“the most beautiful”: Goodall, Africa in My Blood, 105.
“dirty, greasy hair”: Ibid., 102.
“mystery of evolution”: Goodall, Reason for Hope, 49.
“intense excitement”: Ibid., 48.
“cat-like yowls”: Ibid., 46.
“the whole immense vastness of Africa”: Goodall, Africa in My Blood, 114.
“utterly adorable” and “friendly & joking”: Ibid., 109–10.
“blotto” and “One is liable to get”: Ibid.
“full camp”; “such fun”; and “rather like a dormitory”: Peterson, Jane Goodall, 115–16.
“charming & great fun”: Ibid., 122.
“watching ostrich courtship” and “charming Portuguese professor”: Ibid., 123.
“I begin to see why Mary”: Goodall, Africa in My Blood, 119.
“Old Louis really is infantile” and “monkey business”: Ibid., 118.
“I had to come back” and “quite ill”: Peterson, Jane Goodall, 124–25.
“very young”: Goodall, Africa in My Blood, 120.
“an external layer” and “the character underneath”: Ibid.
“utterly remote”: Goodall, Reason for Hope, 54.
“the first person I’ve”: Peterson, Jane Goodall, 127.
“quite utterly and completely mad”: Ibid.
“daring and game to try anything” and “doing the ton”: Ibid.
“quite heavenly”: Ibid., 128.
“But can you imagine”: Goodall, Africa in My Blood, 138.
“Brian, in a lot”: Peterson, Jane Goodall, 129–30.
“Oh, yes. He is in love”: Ibid., 130.
“He has been sweet & kind”: Ibid.
“We’ve had a little talk”: Ibid.
“merely a father to me” and “trust him with everything”: Ibid.
“an extraordinarily promising”: Goodall, Africa in My Blood, 85.
“with a mind unbiased” and “someone with an open”: Goodall, Reason for Hope, 55.
“Miss Jane Morris-Goodall”: Peterson, Jane Goodall, 120.
“the Brian problem”: Ibid., 141.
“a boy of great charm”: Ibid., 142.
“a wonderful flow of conversation” and “loathe to tear”: Ibid., 143–44.
“through miles and miles”; “uninhabited monkey-filled”; “sailed on”; and “a weeklong float”: Ibid., 144.
“far exceeded in strangeness” and “cheetahs slumbering”: Ibid., 145.
“no European woman”: Ibid., 119.
“smiling London”: Goodall, Africa in My Blood, 139.
“there are some animals which”: Peterson, Jane Goodall, 152.
“an extremely interesting”: Ibid., 161.
“charming”: Ibid., 162.
“who has worked in Kenya”: Ibid., 154.
“I saw Leakey” and “all fixed”: Ibid., 159.
“servants of science”: Ibid., 163.
“guided” and “probably capable”: Ibid.
“alongside their own infant” and “remained mute”: Ibid., 163–64.
“one-man expedition” and “blinds”: Ibid., 164.
“surround a group of chimps”: Ibid.
“the chimp is nomadic”: Ibid., 165.
“shocked” and “age, sex, reproductive”: Ibid., 166.
“More slaughter of”: Goodall, Reason for Hope, 56.
“But there were only two bored”: Ibid.
“The more he reads”: Peterson, Jane Goodall, 166.
“first setback”: Goodall, Jane, In the Shadow of Man (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1971), 7.
“a short trial study”: Ibid.
“serious precedent, established”: Peterson, Jane Goodall, 170.
“hunter’s technique”: Ibid.
“taught me a great deal”: Goodall, In the Shadow of Man, 8.
“At 2:15 an adolescent”: Peterson, Jane Goodall, 171.
“species” and “individual members”: Ibid.
“mature female with very pink”: Ibid.
“the huge female” and “very obvious pregnant”: Ibid.
“I had no idea that this”: Goodall, Reason for Hope, 74.
“typically consisted of”: Goodall, Africa in My Blood, 156.
“In the form of statistics”: Gould, Kira, and Lance Hosey, Women in Green (Washington, D.C.: Ecotone Press, 2007), 25.
“living in a dream”: Goodall, In the Shadow of Man, 13
“horrified” and “impenetrable appearance”: Ibid., 14.
“packed up” and “terribly young”: Peterson, Jane Goodall, 176.
“small gurgling stream”: Goodall, In the Shadow of Man, 15.
“so stiff with dust”: Peterson, Jane Goodall, 177.
“hired assistants”; “good-humored”; and “tall and lean”: Ibid., 183.
“depressed and miserable”: Goodall, In the Shadow of Man, 17.
“I do hope it’s all”: Peterson, Jane Goodall, 183.
“I wish you could be here”: Ibid., 179.
“reclusive leopards”: Ibid., 141.
“Fortunately the wind was”: Goodall, Reason for Hope, 62.
“strange sawing call”: Ibid.
“an ingrained illogical fear”: Goodall, In the Shadow of Man, 31.
“hammering” and “almost nonexistent”: Goodall, Reason for Hope, 63.
“a reasonable understanding”: Ibid.
“learned to hate man” and “no more dangerous”: Ibid.
“Men tend to react”: Gould and Hosey, Women in Green, 41.
“There is a way”: Author interview with Jane Goodall.
“the fast running stream”; “thick vegetation”; and “low, resonant”: Goodall, In the Shadow of Man, 18–19.
“This was a mistake”: Peterson, Jane Goodall, 185.
“We heard them”: Ibid.
“How can I ever see” and “mood, a depression”: Ibid.
“This is the trouble”: Ibid., 187.
“the most ghastly, livid”: Ibid., 189.
“Suffocating by 9 AM”: Ibid.
“a measured tread” and “palish face”: Ibid., 194.
“collapsed and unconscious”: Ibid., 191.
“frantic” and “I felt I had”: Goodall, In the Shadow of Man, 25.
“official displeasure”: Ibid.
“Earth kept vanishing”: Peterson, Jane Goodall, 193.
“I was very conspicuous”: Goodall, In the Shadow of Man, 26.
“perched like jockeys”: Ibid.
“square-faced”: Peterson, Jane Goodall, 196.
“always looked immaculate”: Goodall, In the Shadow of Man, 23.
“a rhythm” and “piece together”: Goodall, Reason for Hope, 65.
“unnatural”: Peterson, Jane Goodall, 197.
“The first chimp”: Ibid.
“I thought we could get”: Ibid., 198.
“in fairly thick forest”: Goodall, In the Shadow of Man, 32.
“The first old boy”: Peterson, Jane Goodall, 198.
“old & grizzled male” and “Absolutely no fear”: Ibid.
“This is the first opportunity” and “The penis”: Ibid.
“Each occasion”: Ibid.
“They all went rather fast”: Ibid., 199.
“acorn-like nut” and “the most unpleasant, bitter pungent”: Ibid.
“Dry, dark brown, and fibrous”: Ibid.
“It squatted in a leafy” and “Very comfortable”: Ibid.
“We interact with the environment”: Gould and Hosey, Women in Green, 87.
“There is no way to understand”: Ackerman, Diane, A Natural History of the Senses (New York: Random House, 1990), xv.
“saw things differently” and “a bottom line”: Helgesen, Sally, The Female Advantage: Women’s Ways of Leadership (New York: Doubleday, 1990), 35.
“guns and grassfires”: Peterson, Jane Goodall, 201.
“biological monolith” and “simple and definite”: Ibid., 202.
“I saw one female”: Goodall, In the Shadow of Man, 28.
“two adult males” and “youngsters having wild”: Ibid., 29.
“small infants dangling”: Ibid.
“After eating two fruits”: Peterson, Jane Goodall, 206.
“two or more”: Goodall, In the Shadow of Man, 29.
“Dark mark on left”: Peterson, Jane Goodall, 201.
“as a collective”: Ibid., 203.
“know some of them”: Goodall, Africa in My Blood, 160.
“ate fruits and berries”: Peterson, Jane Goodall, 202.
“usual haunts”: Ibid., 204.
“sentient creatures with humanlike”: Ibid., 203.
“really nice to talk”: Goodall, Africa in My Blood, 163.
“George said he thought”: Ibid., 164.
“angry little screams” and “something which looked pink”: Peterson, Jane Goodall, 205.
“Suspected meat”: Ibid., 206.
“no hair or fur”; “But impossible”; and “he lifted it”: Ibid.
“No response” and “presented her bottom”: Ibid.
“unidentified victim”: Ibid., 207.
“a black object”: Ibid., 208.
“picking up things”; “Very deliberately”; and “Then he got down”: Ibid.
“plump”; “soldiers”; and “to create a long”: Ibid., 209.
“termite-fishing”: Goodall, In the Shadow of Man, 36.
“After a few minutes”: Peterson, Jane Goodall, 209.
“Grey beard, fingers looked”: Ibid., 209–10.
“examine the scene” and “So—they had been watching”: Ibid., 210.
“I was able to observe” and “He then spent”: Ibid.
“He had his back to me” and “a large male baboon”: Ibid., 211.
“the first chimpanzee I saw”: Ibid.
“quiet, almost thoughtful” and “alien, ghostly, ponytailed”: Ibid.
“Because he lost his fear”: Goodall, Reason for Hope, 75.
“Now we must redefine”: Peterson, Jane Goodall, 212.
“unrequited love letters”; “everything was rather hopeless”; and “living with Dr. Leakey”: Ibid., 232.
“unlike any sound” and “tail above the grass”: Ibid., 231.
“Inanimate objects developed”: Goodall, Reason for Hope, 73.
“to hear the pattering”: Ibid.
“living, breathing entity” and “intensely aware of the beingness”: Ibid.
“rough, sun-warmed bark”: Ibid.
“a powerful, almost mystical knowledge”: Ibid., 72.
“The longer I spent on my own”: Ibid., 73.
“It was most organized”: Goodall, Africa In My Blood, 172.
“in a pouring rain with thunder” and “primitive hairy men”: Ibid.
“I felt all the time”: Peterson, Jane Goodall, 235.
“brow” and “Silhouetted on the skyline”: Goodall, Africa in My Blood, 172.
“He stood up, holding”: Peterson, Jane Goodall, 236.
“revolutionary” and “sterile old masculine”: Ibid.
“shot up”: Goodall, In the Shadow of Man, 53.
“white & fungus-y” and “all day long”: Peterson, Jane Goodall, 236–37.
“100 yards”: Ibid., 237.
“who rode everywhere on her”: Goodall, In the Shadow of Man, 32.
“Can it be true?”: Goodall, Africa in My Blood, 180.
“the strangest awakening”: Peterson, Jane Goodall, 241.
“demolished—skin and all”: Ibid.
“There were times” and “full of foreboding”: Ibid., 242–43.
“for ages”: Goodall, Africa in My Blood, 187.
“manipulator and voyeur”: Peterson, Jane Goodall, 228.
“realistic” and “to test the apes’”: Ibid., 227.
“egg-laden nests” and “made to look”: Ibid.
“observer and observed in the same field”: Ibid., 228.
“on foot, unarmed, lightly”: Ibid.
“in a parallel universe”: Goodall, Africa in My Blood, 231.
“This young, scientifically naive”: Ibid., 156.
“only if Miss Goodall”: Ibid., 192.
“a big glassy eye”: Ibid.
“I want to do my own photos”: Peterson, Jane Goodall, 247.
“since he is no stranger”: Goodall, Africa in My Blood, 193.
“knows the animals”; “a wide-angle”; and “top quality”: Ibid.
“far too heavy and clumsy”: Peterson, Jane Goodall, 249.
“a camera round her neck”: Ibid.
“the shortest correspondence”: Ibid., 250.
“a raging headache” and “If only they realized”: Goodall, Africa in My Blood, 198.
“not having previous camera”: Peterson, Jane Goodall, 251.
“as I feel that a determined”: Goodall, Africa in My Blood, 199.
“Of 37 exposures”: Ibid., 194.
“some experience of color”: Ibid.
“The production of satisfactory”: Ibid.
“it has got to be done”: Peterson, Jane Goodall, 253.
“skeletal” and “crisped termites”: Ibid., 255–56.
“I can’t remember when I last wrote”: Ibid., 258.
“I hate to write such depressing”: Ibid., 259.
“not exciting” and “a lack of good pictures”: Ibid., 260.
“this shortcoming is so serious”: Goodall, Africa in My Blood, 195.
“appropriate format”: Peterson, Jane Goodall, 262.
“Incredibly handsome”: Peterson, Jane Goodall, 273.
“He was not aggressive”: Ibid.
“terribly in awe” and “pointed out”: Ibid., 274.
“I’d better go and do” and “filled with frustration”: Ibid.
“ascribing personalities” and “Only humans”: Ibid., 277.
“graphs & statistics”: Ibid., 275.
“I had no undergraduate degree”: Ibid., 276.
“This is an era of specialists”: Carson, Rachel, Silent Spring (New York: Houghton Mifflin, 2002), 13.
“a sense of occasion”: Peterson, Jane Goodall, 286.
“red face” and “perfectly parted”: Ibid., 290.
“Sixty-one different vegetable”: Ibid., 287.
“very hostile” and “amateurs”: Ibid., 290.
“characteristic of all primate”: Ibid., 291.
“there are those who”: Ibid.
“dominance relations”; “primate sex ratios”; and “over-riding importance”: Ibid.
“a non-carnivorous animal”: Ibid.
“a useful point to remember”: Ibid., 292.
“assure”; “I realize you were only”; and “should continue”: Ibid.
“that her legs were too nice, her hair”: Ibid., 294.
“great simplicity”: Ibid., 293.
“monogamous pairs” and “sex and dominance”: Ibid.
“choice, kinship, learning”: Ibid.
“It’s—it’s—it’s for”: Tullis, Paul, “Wild at Heart,” New York Times Magazine, March 15, 2015, 57.
“must make every effort”: Goodall, Africa in My Blood, 195.
“familiar with wild animal”: Peterson, Jane Goodall, 299.
“a face burnt red-brown by the African sun”: Ibid.
“Hugo is charming and”: Ibid., 308.
“crack of dawn” and “her blessings”: Ibid.
“He IS a devil!”: Goodall, Africa in My Blood, 221.
“the happiest: the proudest, of”: Ibid., 220.
“have accepted the presence”: Ibid., 226.
“Hugo might be too embarrassed”: Ibid., 196.
“You will by now have stills”: Ibid., 224.
“just the right person for”: Ibid., 223.
“so far and remote” and “and our conversation”: Peterson, Jane Goodall, 327.
“to make a fine layout” and “a first person”: Ibid., 311.
“provisioning”: Goodall, Africa in My Blood, 233.
“the most hideous old bag”: Peterson, Jane Goodall, 325.
“millions of males”: Ibid., 265.
“in the most fabulous way”: Ibid., 260.
“rushed about with all his hair”: Ibid., 250.
“Goliath has borne Hugo”: Ibid., 259.
“I know you have complete”: Peterson, Jane Goodall, 320–21.
“some interfering officer”: Ibid., 321.
“Louis, can you really”: Goodall, Africa in My Blood, 263.
“We now have 21 regular”: Peterson, Jane Goodall, 324.
“To be able to follow”: Goodall, Africa in My Blood, 265.
“more aggressive” and “manipulative traditions”: Peterson, Jane Goodall, 323.
“been conducting cancer research”: Ibid., 329.
“to question the state” and “I thought to myself, gee here”: Ibid., 328–29.
“Whenever I think of Africa”: Ibid., 329.
“Your fascinating account”: Ibid., 330.
“WILL YOU MARRY ME”: Goodall, Africa in My Blood, 270.
“You can’t imagine”: Ibid., 273.
“just a snob value waste”: Peterson, Jane Goodall, 342.
“there was no way”: Goodall, Africa in My Blood, 335.
“flat out on the final stages”: Peterson, Jane Goodall, 385.
“Nescafe and the occasional apple”: Ibid., 379.
“a delightful month”: Goodall, Africa in My Blood, 337.
“hollow-eyed, gaunt”: Goodall, Jane, Beyond Innocence: An Autobiography in Letters; The Later Years, ed. Dale Peterson (New York: Houghton Mifflin, 2001), 145.
“I was in a dream world”: The account on the next pages is based on my interview with Jane Goodall, unless otherwise noted.
“That’s when the shock hit me”: Ibid.
“And I am not aggressive”: Tullis, “Wild at Heart,” 58.
“It never ceases to amaze”: Ibid.
“I have to raise money”: Author interview with Jane Goodall for the following conversation about Roots & Shoots and Goodall’s good work there.
“but the windows are chicken wire”: Tullis, “Wild at Heart,” 58.
“People often ask me”: Author interview with Jane Goodall.
CHAPTER 4: ALICE WATERS
“Elsewhere, even when I found”: McNamee, Thomas, Alice Waters and Chez Panisse (New York: Penguin, 2007), 18.
“downstairs part”: Ibid., 17–18.
“Everything in Paris”: Ibid., 16.
“some experience with French men”: Ibid., 14.
“my mother didn’t really”: Author interview with Alice Waters.
“The skirt was kind of itchy”: Ibid.
“We played outside”: Ibid.
“stand her shivering”: McNamee, Alice Waters and Chez Panisse, 9.
“We climbed the trees”: Author interview with Alice Waters.
“I could name all the trees”: Ibid.
“The mulberries seemed”: Bolois, Justin, “The 10 Dishes That Made My Career: Alice Waters,” FirstWeFeast.com, April 20, 2015.
“Our whole concept”: Halberstam, David, The Fifties (New York: Ballantine, 1993), 159.
“ones from the other side”: McNamee, Alice Waters and Chez Panisse, 9.
“That was a dark period”: Ibid., 10.
“That changed everything”: Author interview with Alice Waters.
“There is a time”: Bloom, Alexander, and Wini Breines, eds., Takin’ It to the Streets: A Sixties Reader (New York: Oxford University Press, 1995), 111–12.
“it was just finely chopped up”: McNamee, Alice Waters and Chez Panisse, 12.
“That was the time”: Ibid., 15.
“They had pretty decent pâté”: Ibid., 14.
“We would just sit there”: Ibid.
“obsession”: Ibid., 16.
“It was a wonderful time”: Author interview with Alice Waters.
“I was still very intimidated”: McNamee, Alice Waters and Chez Panisse, 16.
“What the fruit bowl”: Ibid.
“a complete seduction” and “a whole different”: Author interview with Alice Waters.
“I had a couple of French friends”: Ibid.
“I’d hardly even heard”: McNamee, Alice Waters and Chez Panisse, 17.
“That was our real introduction”: Ibid.
“I’ll never forget those”: Ibid.
“the old gods”: Barr, Luke, Provence, 1970: M. F. K. Fisher, Julia Child, James Beard, and the Reinvention of American Taste (New York: Clarkson Potter, 2013), 25.
“opened a door to pleasure”: Ibid., 13.
“The atmospherics of desire”: Ibid.
“When I got back”: McNamee, Alice Waters and Chez Panisse, 19.
“God, it was a wild time”: Ibid., 21.
“horrors of Babylon”: Kisseloff, Jeff, Generation on Fire: Voices of Protest from the 1960s (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 2007), 158.
Trip Without a Ticket: Ibid., 145.
“crazy mandala”: Roszak, Theodore, The Making of a Counter Culture (New York: Doubleday, 1968), 136.
“a hirsute, be-cowbelled contingent”: Ibid., 140.
“What kind of America”: Isserman, Maurice, and Michael Kazin, America Divided: The Civil War of the 1960s (New York: Oxford University Press, 2000), 164.
“She was outraged”: McNamee, Alice Waters and Chez Panisse, 21.
“Alice was only twenty-one”: Ibid., 25.
“I kept drinking”: Ibid., 21.
“in other words, the French Revolution”: Ibid., 23.
“She was never a shy person”: Ibid., 23–24.
“plummy patrician accent”: Barr, Provence, 1970, 52.
“The door was always”: McNamee, Alice Waters and Chez Panisse, 23.
“health food nuts”: Belasco, Warren J., Appetite for Change: How the Counterculture Took On the Food Industry (Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 2007), 16.
squirting a noisome fly with breast milk: Ibid., 36.
“organic’s rejection”: Pollan, Michael, The Omnivore’s Dilemma (New York: Penguin, 2006), 143.
“White versus brown”: Belasco, Appetite for Change, 48.
“I remember sitting around”: McNamee, Alice Waters and Chez Panisse, 24–25.
“We’d get this great big old house”: Ibid., 25.
“Alice would try anything”: Ibid., 26.
“truly momentous disasters”: Ibid.
“The whole trend of American family cooking”: Kamp, David, “Cooking Up a Storm,” Vanity Fair, October 2006.
“Those meals of ours”: McNamee, Alice Waters and Chez Panisse, 27.
“she didn’t even try”: Ibid., 28.
“was the only one”: Kamp, David, The United States of Arugula (New York: Broadway Books, 2006), 131.
“trying-to-be-French”: McNamee, Alice Waters and Chez Panisse, 29.
“the restaurant fantasy”: Ibid.
“There were a lot of artists”: Gross, Terry, “Forty Years of Sustainable Food” (interview with Alice Waters), Fresh Air, NPR, August 22, 2011.
“Ingredients! Sure, you had”: McNamee, Alice Waters and Chez Panisse, 32.
“Montessori went straight to my heart”: Author interview with Alice Waters.
“It’s an observation”: McNamee, Alice Waters and Chez Panisse, 33.
“I’m your certified commie creep”: Ibid., 34.
“You fed a space heater with shillings”: Ibid.
“I nearly froze to death that winter”: Waters, Alice, and Friends, Forty Years of Chez Panisse: The Power of Gathering (New York: Clarkson Potter, 2011), 20.
“Gypsy music”: McNamee, Alice Waters and Chez Panisse, 36.
“A shy, big-eyed” and “The boy builds us”: Waters, Alice, “Tea and Cheese in Turkey,” in The Kindness of Strangers, ed. Don George (Melbourne: Lonely Planet, 2003), 42–43.
“finding grace in the unexpected”: McNamee, Alice Waters and Chez Panisse, 52.
“practically nothing”: Waters, Forty Years of Chez Panisse, 20.
“It was like a garden”: Ibid., 37.
“a tightly wound cloche”: McNamee, Alice Waters and Chez Panisse, 37.
“Martine was very important”: Ibid., 38.
“Martine could feed”: Author interview with Alice Waters.
“Film was the art form”: McNamee, Alice Waters and Chez Panisse, 38.
“grew mistiest over”: Kamp, The United States of Arugula, 138.
“an ugly, squat, two-story”: Ibid.
“like a rundown hippie crash”: McNamee, Alice Waters and Chez Panisse, 42.
“Nobody cared if you wanted”: Ibid., 40.
“Well, of course, they were”: Ibid., 42.
“I wanted it to be like”: Ibid., 45.
“You ate what was there”: Author interview with Greil Marcus.
“harmonious whole”: McNamee, Alice Waters and Chez Panisse, 45.
“A couple could live”: Author interview with Ruth Reichl.
“I hired them all”: McNamee, Alice Waters and Chez Panisse, 4.
“It was exactly the right”: Kamp, The United States of Arugula, 140.
“We were so happy”: McNamee, Alice Waters and Chez Panisse, 5.
“No corners cut”: Ibid., 49.
“Those of us who were working”: Kamp, The United States of Arugula, 142.
“Everyone will have to be”: McNamee, Alice Waters and Chez Panisse, 49.
“It was a train out of control”: Ibid., 51.
“We were inventing”: Author interview with Alice Waters.
“Such-and-such Meats”: McNamee, Alice Waters and Chez Panisse, 52.
“nobody came before”: Author interview with Alice Waters.
“She was a total workaholic”: Kamp, The United States of Arugula, 143.
“We would have heated”: McNamee, Alice Waters and Chez Panisse, 53.
“a notion of how to live”: Marcus, Greil, “Chez Panisse: Seventies” (unpublished manuscript provided courtesy of Greil Marcus).
“It could not have happened”: Ibid.
“She was very stubborn”: McNamee, Alice Waters and Chez Panisse, 53.
“Scale down your attachments”: Belasco, Appetite for Change, 26.
“‘Natural’ was a liberated”: Ibid., 40.
“revolutionizing”: Ibid., xi.
“No owner, no manager, no employees”: Ibid., 20.
“There was a little cottage”: Kamp, The United States of Arugula, 145.
“It was quite unremarkable”: McNamee, Alice Waters and Chez Panisse, 54.
“I knew it was going to be hard”: Ibid., 53.
“as big a percentage”: Waters, Forty Years of Chez Panisse, 46.
“There has always been”: McNamee, Alice Waters and Chez Panisse, 24.
“Once, I had this idea”: Ibid., 190.
“I am uncompromising”: Author interview with Alice Waters.
“We gathered watercress”: Waters, Alice, “The Farm-Restaurant Connection,” in American Food Writing: An Anthology with Classic Recipes, ed. Molly O’Neill (New York: Library of America, 2007), 561.
“the hunter-gatherer culture”: McNamee, Alice Waters and Chez Panisse, 59.
Terroir: Ibid.
“They always had this local”: Author interview with Alice Waters.
“Mediterranean reef”: McNamee, Alice Waters and Chez Panisse, 86.
“one piece at a time”: Ibid.
“Burgundy, the Pays d’Oc”: Ibid., 87.
“But not here. Not in Berkeley” and “We were going to stalls”: Author interview with Alice Waters.
“Station Wagon Way”: Barr, Provence, 1970, 14.
The Can-Opener Cookbook: Ibid., 17.
“can claim the K-ration”: Curtis, Olga, “Time-Saving Modern Kitchen Miracles,” Washington Post and Times Herald, April 22, 1957, C2.
“how to talk and think”: Barr, Provence, 1970, 9.
“revelation of taste”: Ibid., 14.
“literary consideration”: Ibid., 13.
“skimping”: Ibid., 16.
“food acquired a chic”: Ibid., 17.
“little family restaurants”: Author interview with Alice Waters.
“heat-and-serve vacuum”: McNamee, Alice Waters and Chez Panisse, 89.
“It was so dispiriting”: Author interview with Alice Waters.
“If you wanted a peach”: Ibid.
“When I traveled”: McNamee, Alice Waters and Chez Panisse, 90.
“going to keep making bread”: Ibid.
“They were doing it for”: Author interview with Alice Waters.
“We were starting to reach”: McNamee, Alice Waters and Chez Panisse, 90.
“I’ve always believed”: Ibid., 60.
“Everyone was switched on”: Waters, Forty Years of Chez Panisse, 151.
“if someone—most often”: McNamee, Alice Waters and Chez Panisse, 62.
“There was scant division”: Waters, Forty Years of Chez Panisse, 93.
“There are so many aspects”: McNamee, Alice Waters and Chez Panisse, 67.
“Right now in an”: Ibid.
“I never wanted to be chef”: Ibid., 68.
“come one come all”: Kamp, “Cooking Up a Storm.”
“She wasn’t Gallic”: Kamp, The United States of Arugula, 145.
“a beef-stew-and-fruit-tart”: Ibid., 146.
“roué”: McNamee, Alice Waters and Chez Panisse, 76.
“Escoffier-style grande cuisine”: Kamp, The United States of Arugula, 148.
“to roast barracuda”; “to smoke”; and “love boys”: McNamee, Alice Waters and Chez Panisse, 76.
“I, of course, immediately”: Ibid., 78.
“He was a perfectionist”: Ibid., 79.
“could only be an asshole”: Ibid.
“And it worked because”: Kamp, The United States of Arugula, 154.
“wrote out these elaborate”: Ibid.
“Jeremiah was Escoffier”: McNamee, Alice Waters and Chez Panisse, 81.
“a better egg”: Ibid., 82.
“Sometimes I’d bring in”: Ibid., 93.
“and someone had hunted”: Ibid.
“l’entre-plat drogué”: Kamp, “Cooking Up a Storm.”
“fascinating”: Kamp, The United States of Arugula, 157.
“They were all so glamorous”: Author interview with Ruth Reichl.
“There were magnums”: Kamp, The United States of Arugula, 155.
“a big bag of blow”: Ibid.
“I think the exuberance”: McNamee, Alice Waters and Chez Panisse, 98.
“Drugs were easier”: Kamp, The United States of Arugula, 156.
“Chez Panisse is joyously”: McNamee, Alice Waters and Chez Panisse, 111.
“mostly dread” and “doubting, demanding”: Ibid.
“I felt like I’d walked straight into”: Waters, Forty Years of Chez Panisse, 73.
“That was when I really”: McNamee, Alice Waters and Chez Panisse, 97.
“Lucien became my surrogate”: Waters, Forty Years of Chez Panisse, 73.
“overripe, overrich”: McNamee, Alice Waters and Chez Panisse, 114.
“If you read Jeremiah’s”: Kamp, The United States of Arugula, 159.
“a very closed place”: Author interview with Greil Marcus.
“took a story that was rich”: McNamee, Alice Waters and Chez Panisse, 114.
“Anybody who says that Jeremiah”: Kamp, The United States of Arugula, 160.
“Jeremiah had a much”: Author interview with Ruth Reichl.
“These new customers”: McNamee, Alice Waters and Chez Panisse, 127.
“to use American ingredients”: Kamp, The United States of Arugula, 161.
“We were doing some of”: McNamee, Alice Waters and Chez Panisse, 124–25.
“We were really foraging”: Ibid., 125.
“Forging a connection”: Author interview with Alice Waters.
“One of them happened to be”: Ibid.
“obsessive”; “health of the soil”; and “and which brought”: Waters, Forty Years of Chez Panisse, 67.
“I had associated organic”: Author interview with Alice Waters.
“It was a consistent pattern”: Ibid.
“without a healthy agriculture”: Waters, “The Farm-Restaurant Connection,” 560.
“cream of fresh corn soup”: McNamee, Alice Waters and Chez Panisse, 128.
“My idea of organic was to grow”: Ibid., 136.
“We bought the seeds”: Author interview with Alice Waters.
“I went to see Claude”: McNamee, Alice Waters and Chez Panisse, 138.
“one endless meal”: Ibid.
“Alice is a very loyal”: Ibid., 199.
“In those days”: Ibid., 142.
“I showed Alice”: Ibid.
“Alice trusted me”: Ibid., 143.
“I wanted to taste, travel”: Ibid., 145.
“We could see the fire”: Ibid., 148.
“no truffles, no foie gras”: Ibid., 149.
“For eight years now”: Ibid., 151.
“In some eight years” and “If you could eat”: Ibid., 153.
“I remember distinctly”: Ibid.
“a marriage of many”: Ibid., 162.
“I remember very vividly”: Ibid., 169.
“in that I kind of thought”: Ibid.
“our responsibility reached”: Waters, Forty Years of Chez Panisse, 101.
“I realized there was”: McNamee, Alice Waters and Chez Panisse, 170–71.
“To see outside”: Ibid., 172.
“her life, her family”: Ibid.
“I was in my late thirties” and “And then, we met”: Ibid., 173.
“I had a lot of sort of desperate”: Ibid., 174.
“sensory overload”: Ibid., 187.
“[Her] focus had been largely” and “about the earth”: Ibid., 184.
“My sense of the ethics and politics”: Ibid., 184–85.
“what food meant to the survival”: Ibid., 190.
“clarity of flavor” and “I loved that he had”: Ibid., 182.
“It’s a fundamental”: Waters, Alice, Chez Panisse Menu Cookbook (New York: Random House, 1982), 3.
“When I cook”: Ibid., 6.
“This book is as much hers”: McNamee, Alice Waters and Chez Panisse, 177.
“an ad hoc day-care center”: Ibid., 189.
“eight kinds of heirloom”: Ibid., 192.
“that nobody had ever seen”: Author interview with Alice Waters.
“Nobody had ever done”: McNamee, Alice Waters and Chez Panisse, 192.
“Sibella organized this very important”: Author interview with Alice Waters.
“Alice’s philosophy, and mine”: McNamee, Alice Waters and Chez Panisse, 193.
“When you’re around Alice”: Ibid., 194.
“We buy everything Bob grows”: Author interview with Alice Waters.
“an unruly child”: McNamee, Alice Waters and Chez Panisse, 197.
“a revolution in American cooking” and “one of this country’s most”: Ibid., 204.
“More than any other single”: Ibid.
“I just happened to see”: Ibid., 205.
“a living exhibition” and “There’s always money for good”: Ibid., 208.
“if only for Fanny’s sake”: Ibid., 211.
“[Alice] had all the Pagnol fantasies”: Ibid.
“an ideal reality where life”: Waters, “The Farm-Restaurant Connection,” 568.
“our responsibility to”: McNamee, Alice Waters and Chez Panisse, 227.
“could and did do”: Ibid., 216.
“As famille Panisse, we’d all take”: Ibid., 219.
“Those of us who work”: Waters, “The Farm-Restaurant Connection,” 566.
“That’s silly. That’s like saying”: Author interview with Alice Waters.
“a line of granola”: Gopnik, Adam, “Annals of Gastronomy: The Millennial Restaurant,” The New Yorker, October 26, 1998.
“Alice is the least elitist”: Author interview with Ruth Reichl.
“What you have to understand”: Author interview with Greil Marcus.
“organic” and “externalize”: Author interview with Alice Waters.
“meat analogs” and “textured vegetable proteins”: Belasco, Appetite for Change, 37–39.
“These guys find where”: Author interview with Alice Waters.
“high-fructose corn syrup”: McNamee, Alice Waters and Chez Panisse, 228.
“Food shouldn’t be fast”: Author interview with Alice Waters.
“While America’s human population”: Pollan, The Omnivore’s Dilemma, 67.
“insanely high”: McNamee, Alice Waters and Chez Panisse, 231.
“It was very distressing”: Ibid., 232.
“You had to start somewhere”: Ibid.
“the life of the restaurant”: Author interview with Alice Waters.
“to come to his office”: The account of the Edible Schoolyard on the next pages is based on my interview with Alice Waters, except as noted.
“seduction”: Kalins, Dorothy, “Alice Waters: True Believer,” Town and Country, January 2005.
“I think real food has a way”: Author interview.
“It’s so hard to remember”: Author interview with Ruth Reichl.
“is the person”: McNamee, Alice Waters and Chez Panisse, 261.
“a comprehensive solution”: Ibid., 259.
“The tangerine peel”: Ibid., 267.
“he would have been dead”: Ibid., 262.
“They should have said to me”: Ibid.
“I used to have a notion”: Ibid., 263.
“It was always connected” and “This is the first generation”: Author interview.
“Kids are disconnected”: Ibid.
“I’ve been giving this talk”: Ibid.
“epidemic”: Pollan, The Omnivore’s Dilemma, 90.
“unimaginable 655 percent”: Taubes, Gary, “Big Sugar’s Ally? Nutritionists,” New York Times, January 13, 2017. For additional information see http://www.cdc.gov/diabetes/data.
“What’s going on with children”: Author interview.
“I’ve always believed”: Ibid.
“They were afraid”: Ibid.
“We began by teaching”; “so we designed a card”; “if they grow it”; and “It’s why these models”: Ibid.
“boys and girls together” and “They go there”: Ibid.
“making visible the lines of connection”: Pollan, Michael, Cooked: A Natural History of Transformation (New York: Penguin, 2013), 20.
“become so inured to the dogmas”: Waters, “The Farm-Restaurant Connection,” 561.
“Help us nourish”: McNamee, Alice Waters and Chez Panisse, 268.
“The prospect of your second term”: Ibid., 270.
“At best, we serve”: Author interview with Alice Waters.
“It was right at the time”: McNamee, Alice Waters and Chez Panisse, 274.
“He was so angry”: Ibid.
“excruciating”: Ibid., 276.
“Very painful”: Ibid., 274.
“Alice didn’t even want to cook for a while”: Ibid., 275.
“It’s only now”: Author interview with Alice Waters.
“We haven’t even begun”: Ibid.
“And we have lots”: Ibid.
“Well, do you want to change the food?”: Ibid.
“Eating is an agricultural act”: The conversation in the following pages is taken from my interview with Alice Waters.
“you’d follow her anywhere”: Kalins, “Alice Waters: True Believer.”
CHAPTER 5: HOPE IN THE SHADOWS
“28% of its electricity”: Solnit, Rebecca, Hope in the Dark: Untold Histories, Wild Possibilities (Chicago: Haymarket Books, 2016), xxi.
“generates one-tenth”: Tabuchi, Hiroko, “The Banks Putting Rain Forests in Peril,” New York Times, December 4, 2016.
“fragile state”: “Sustainable Land Use in the 21st Century” (study conducted by the United Nations, 2016), 5.
“protected areas”: Ibid.
“To a populace”: Wilson, E. O., afterword to Carson, Rachel, Silent Spring (New York: Houghton Mifflin, 2002), 358.
“Researchers were learning”: Ibid., 357.
“the whip-hand over nature”: Nash, Roderick, Wilderness and the American Mind, rev. ed. (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1973), 196.
“drowning in a sea”: Isserman, Maurice, and Michael Kazin, America Divided: The Civil War of the 1960s (New York: Oxford University Press, 2000), 9.
“You may be hitched”: Menand, Louis, “Books as Bombs,” The New Yorker, January 24, 2011, 78.
“head and master”: Coontz, Stephanie, A Strange Stirring: The Feminine Mystique and American Women at the Dawn of the 1960s (New York: Basic Books, 2011), 5.
“at least age 40”: Ibid., 7.
“reckless assault”: Marx, Leo, The Machine in the Garden: Technology and the Pastoral Ideal in America (1964; repr., New York: Oxford University Press, 2000), 369.
“thinking with all your senses”: Klinkenborg, Verlyn, Several Short Sentences About Writing (New York: Vintage Books, 2013), 39.
“connection”: Gould, Kira, and Lance Hosey, Women in Green (Washington, D.C.: Ecotone Press, 2007), 28.
“The change that counts in revolution”: Solnit, Hope in the Dark, 26.
“practically and additively”: Gould and Hosey, Women in Green, 30.
“essential linkages”: Allen, Max, ed., Ideas That Matter: The Worlds of Jane Jacobs (Toronto: The Ginger Press, 1997), 207.
“Traditional conservation”: McNamee, Thomas, Alice Waters and Chez Panisse (New York: Penguin, 2007), 315.
“exploitation and nurture”: Berry, Wendell, The Unsettling of America: Culture and Agriculture (San Francisco: Sierra Club Books, 1977), 7.
“science-based technological progress”: Marx, The Machine in the Garden, 369.
“nonviolence or nonexistence”: King, Martin Luther Jr., “Remaining Awake Through a Great Revolution” (speech of March 31, 1968). The Martin Luther King Jr. Research and Education Institute, Stanford University.
“a total overhaul”: Belasco, Warren J., Appetite for Change: How the Counterculture Took On the Food Industry (Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 2007), 26.
“quick death” and “slow strangulation”: Ibid.
“A time comes when silence”: Bromwich, David, “Martin Luther King’s Speech Against the Vietnam War,” Antiwar.com, March 16, 2008.
“In Vietnam that time”: Ibid.
“the Stone Age”: Sartre, Jean Paul, “On Genocide,” in America Since 1945, ed. Robert D. Marcus and David Burner (New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1981), 239.
“power and technology”: Bromwich, “Martin Luther King’s Speech.”
“madness”: Ibid., 7.
“I speak for the poor”: Ibid., 8.
“We must realize”: Belasco, Appetite for Change, 23.
“bid for green space”; “disdain for nature”; and “mass defoliation”: Ibid., 21.
“the quality of our lives”: Ibid.
“pointed away from violence”: Ibid.
“Revolutionaries must begin to think”: Ibid.
“the tyranny of the immediate”: Shabecoff, Philip, A Fierce Green Fire: The American Environmental Movement (New York: Hill and Wang, 1993), 254.
“founding text”: Marx, The Machine in the Garden, 381.