Tea is quiet and our thirst for tea is never far from our craving for beauty.

- James Norwood Pratt

America's new tea lovers are the people who have forced the tea trade to wake up. Elsewhere, tea has meant a certain way, a certain tradition, for ce…

- James Norwood Pratt

Tea is also a sort of spiritual refreshment, an elixir of clarity and wakeful tranquility. Respectfully preparing tea and partaking of it mindfully c…

- James Norwood Pratt

Tea-making is a ritual that, like the drink itself, warms the heart somehow.

- James Norwood Pratt

Tea is quiet and it takes a quiet palate to appreciate something that calls so little attention to itself.

- James Norwood Pratt

No pleasure is simpler, no luxury cheaper, no consciousness-altering substance more benign.

- James Norwood Pratt