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Tea began as a medicine and grew into a beverage.
KAKUZO OKAKURA, Book of Tea
Tea ... is one of those rare treasures, enjoyed throughout the world, that actually benefits health.
KIT CHOW, All the Tea in China
Ever since tea was first discovered, its cultivation and consumption have been encouraged because of its apparent ability to ward off disease, strengthen powers of concentration, cleanse the body, and aid digestion. Legends of its medicinal properties reached Europe and the New World from China, intriguing the Western consumer, and now, centuries later, modern research has begun to confirm many of those early beliefs.
JANE PETTIGREW, forward, New Tastes in Green Tea
Tea beckons us to enjoy quality time with friends and loved ones, and especially to rediscover the art of relaxed conversation.
DOROTHEA JOHNSON, Tea & Etiquette
Tea is the most popular beverage, after water, throughout the world.
LESTER MITSCHER, The Green Tea Book
Tea is hot and getting hotter. From iced to spiced, from austere black tea to sweetened and milky chai, from a flowery pick-me-up to a healing herbal, no other beverage has such a place in the heart of every civilization. No wonder it is the most popular beverage in the world, next to water.
SARA PERRY, The New Tea Book
Tea is a work of art and needs a master hand to bring out its noblest qualities. We have good and bad teas, as we have good and bad paintings -- generally the latter.
KAKUZO OKAKURA, Book of Tea
Drinking tea ... punctuates our day with precious and refreshing pauses, whether it is after a satisfying meal or when taking a much-needed break in our busy schedule.
MUTSUKO TOKUNAGA, New Tastes in Green Tea
The Philosophy of Tea is not mere aestheticism ... for it expresses conjointly with ethics and religion our whole point of view about man and nature. It is hygiene, for it enforces cleanliness; it is economics, for it shows comfort in simplicity rather than in the complex and costly; it is moral geometry, inasmuch as it defines our sense of proportion to the universe.
KAKUZO OKAKURA, Book of Tea
In an age when everyone is constantly busy and short of time, what could be more enjoyable than taking time to indulge in what was once part of everyday life, but has now become a luxury -- afternoon tea.
LESLEY MACKLEY, The Book of Afternoon Tea
When you sit in a café, with a lot of music in the background and a lot of projects in your head, you're not really drinking your coffee or your tea. You're drinking your projects, you're drinking your worries. You are not real, and the coffee is not real either. Your coffee can only reveal itself to you as a reality when you go back to your self and produce your true presence, freeing yourself from the past, the future, and from your worries. When you are real, the tea also becomes real and the encounter between you and the tea is real. This is genuine tea drinking.
THICH NHAT HANH, Anger: Wisdome for Cooling the Flames
Tea is more than an idealization of the form of drinking, it is a religion of the art of life.
KAKUZO OKAKURA, Book of Tea
I am Chinese. Tea is in my very bones.
KIT CHOW, All the Tea in China
- The first cup caresses my dry lips and throat,
- The second shatters the walls of my loneliness,
- The third explores the dry rivulets of my soul
- Searching for legends of five thousand scrolls.
- With the fourth the pain of past injustice vanishes through my pores.
- The fifth purifies my flesh and bone.
- With the sixth I commune with the immortals.
- The seventh conveys such pleasure I am overcome.
- The fresh wind blows through my wings
- As I make my way to Penglai.
LU TONG, Thanks to Imperial Censor Meng for His Gift of Freshly Picked Tea
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