The whole of nature is a conjugation of the verb to eat, in the active and passive. — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
The garden suggests there might be a place where we can meet nature halfway. — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
Eat foods made from ingredients that you can picture in their raw state or growing in nature. — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
It has become much harder, in the past century, to tell where the garden leaves off and pure nature begins. — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
“Daily, our eating turns nature into culture, transforming the body of the world into our bodies and minds.” — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
Most of the time pests and disease are just nature's way of telling the farmer he's doing something wrong. — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
Design in nature is but a concatenation of accidents, culled by natural selection until the result is so beautiful or effective as… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
Animals die even if you eat vegetables. That is the nature of farming. There is a certain sacrifice involved. — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
“All these activities are forms of adult play that also serve as ceremonial acts of remembering—who we are, where we came from,… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
It's very important to get out, to do reporting. It's also really interesting. I come at it as a journalist, and I… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
“Our ignorance of the teeming wilderness that is the soil (even the act of regarding it as a wilderness) is no impediment… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
The almighty and everywhere present power of God; whereby, as it were by his hand, he upholds and governs heaven, earth, and… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
Are we, finally, speaking of nature or culture when we speak of a rose (nature), that has been bred (culture) so that… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
Ecology also teaches that all life on earth can be viewed as a competition among species for the solar energy captured by… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
The green thumb is equable in the face of nature's uncertainties; he moves among her mysteries without feeling the need for control… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
Looking at the world from other species' points of view is a cure for the disease of human self-importance. You suddenly realize… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
There's been progress toward seeing that nature and culture are not opposing terms, and that wilderness is not the only kind of… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
“Imagine if we had a food system that actually produced wholesome food. Imagine if it produced that food in a way that… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
“Mowing the lawn, I felt like I was battling the earth rather than working it; each week it sent forth a green… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
“either-or is a construction more deeply woven into our culture than into nature, where even antagonists depend on one another and the… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
“I was struck by the fact that for Joel abjuring agrochemicals and pharmaceuticals is not so much a goal of his farming,… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
“Polyface Farm is built on the efficiencies that come from mimicking relationships found in nature and layering one farm enterprise over another… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
“Anthropocentric as [the gardener] may be, he recognizes that he is dependent for his health and survival on many other forms of… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
“A charge often levied against organic agriculture is that it is more philosophy than science. There's some truth to this indictment, if… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
“imagine for a moment if we once again knew, strictly as a matter of course, these few unremarkable things: What it is… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
... the way we eat represents our most profound engagement with the natural world. Daily, our eating turns nature into culture, transforming… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
“So this is what commodity corn can do to a cow: industrialize the miracle of nature that is a ruminant, taking this… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
“Darwin called such a process artificial, as opposed to natural, selection, but from the flower’s point of view, this is a distinction… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
In general, science journalism concerns itself with what has been published in a handful of peer-reviewed journals - Nature, Cell, The New… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
Agriculture changes the landscape more than anything else we do. It alters the composition of species. We don't realize it when we… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
My whole interest in food grew from my interest in gardens and the question of how we engage with the natural world.… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
“...every new genetically engineered plant is a unique event in nature, bringing its own set of genetic contingencies. This means that the… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
“The blessing of the omnivore is that he can eat a great many different things in nature. The curse of the omnivore… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
A natural historian is somebody who looks at something in terms of its relationship to the rest of the natural world. You… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
For we would no longer need any reminding that however we choose to feed ourselves, we eat by the grace of nature,… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
People have traditionally turned to ritual to help them frame and acknowledge and ultimately even find joy in just such a paradox… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
More grass means less forest; more forest less grass. But either-or is a construction more deeply woven into our culture than into… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
“In the same way that the picturesque designers were always careful to include some reminder of our mortality in their gardens -- a ruin,… — Michael Pollan Copy Share
My hope is that if people have the knowledge, and if they actually see where their food comes from and have access to the… — Michael Pollan Copy Share
The problem is that we let special-occasion food become everyday food. That goes for soda and french fries. — Michael Pollan Copy Share
Every peasant cuisine has incredible ingenious tricks for getting a lot of nutrition out of a small amount of ingredients. There are people who… — Michael Pollan Copy Share
“In ancient Greece, the word for “cook,” “butcher,” and “priest” was the same—mageiros—and the word shares an etymological root with “magic.” — Michael Pollan Copy Share
In the end I'm still a writer. I'm still a journalist, and my first responsibility is to my readers. That's where I have to… — Michael Pollan Copy Share
Seeds have the power to preserve species, to enhance cultural as well as genetic diversity, to counter economic monopoly and to check the advance… — Michael Pollan Copy Share
“The bubble logic driving tulipomania has since acquired a name: “the greater fool theory.” Although by any conventional measure it is folly to pay… — Michael Pollan Copy Share
“Of the seven deadly sins, surely it is pride that most afflicts the gardener.” — Michael Pollan Copy Share
Growing corn, which from a biological perspective had always been a process of capturing sunlight to turn into food, has in no small measure… — Michael Pollan Copy Share
Eat with consciousness. When you eat with consciousness, and you know what you're eating, and you eat it in full appreciation of what it… — Michael Pollan Copy Share
“...whenever I hear people say clean food is expensive, I tell them it's actually the cheapest food you can buy. That always gets their… — Michael Pollan Copy Share
“Imagine if we had a food system that actually produced wholesome food. Imagine if it produced that food in a way that restored the… — Michael Pollan Copy Share
![“Anthropocentric as [the gardener] may be, he recognizes that he is dependent for his health and survival on many other forms of life, so he is careful to take their interests into account in whatever he does. He is in fact a wilderness advocate of a certain kind. It is when he respects and…” quote by Michael Pollan](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/74b/michael-pollan-408_garden_anthropocentric-as-the-gardener-may-be-h_3049569.jpg)
