dyeing an orange,
orange, man’s most impudent
gesture to this date
In the kitchen cabinet is a bag of oranges for morning juice.
Each orange is stamped “Color Added.”
The dyeing of an orange, to make it orange, is man’s most impudent gesture to date.
It is really an appalling piece of effrontery, carrying the clear implication that Nature doesn’t know what she is up to.
On a Florida Key, February 1941; Essays of E. B. White, p. 13
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