The garden suggests there might be a place where we can meet nature halfway. — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
How my son discovered vegetables was from growing them in the garden. — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
I've always been interested in plants because I'm a gardener, so I have a basic understanding of botany and things like that,… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
Before I started writing about food, my focus was really on the human relationship to plants. Not only do plants nourish us… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
Seeds have the power to preserve species, to enhance cultural as well as genetic diversity, to counter economic monopoly and to check… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
The best farming systems are ones where animals and plants are put into a synergistic relationship. — 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
Tree planting is always a utopian enterprise, it seems to me, a wager on a future the planter doesn't necessarily expect to… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
“Plants are nature’s alchemists, expert at transforming water, soil and sunlight into an array of precious substances, many of them beyond the… — 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
“How this peculiar grass, native to Central America and unknown to the Old World before 1492, came to colonize so much of… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
The single greatest lesson the garden teaches is that our relationship to the planet need not be zero-sum, and that as long… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
Measured against the Problem We Face, planting a garden sounds pretty benign, I know, but in fact it's one of the most… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
Soon after the inauguration, the Obamas gave Big Food a case of heartburn when, in the spring of 2009, Michelle Obama planted… — 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
“How did these organs of plant sex manage to get themselves cross-wired with human ideas of value and status and Eros? And… — 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 --… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
Originally, the atoms of carbon from which we're made were floating in the air, part of a carbon dioxide molecule. The only… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
“The more serious about gardening I became, the more dubious lawns seemed. The problem for me was not, as it was for… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
“When we mistake what we can know for all there is to know, a healthy appreciation of one’s ignorance in the face… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
“Each spring for a period of weeks the imperial gardens were filled with prize tulips (Turkish, Dutch, Iranian), all of them shown… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
“How this peculiar grass, native to Central America and unknown to the Old World before 1492, came to colonize so much of… — 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
“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
You know what a lima bean does when it's attacked by spider mites? It releases this volatile chemical that goes out into… — 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
As I grew steadily more comfortable in the kitchen, I found that, much like gardening, most cooking manages to be agreeably absorbing… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
A garden should make you feel you've entered privileged space -- a place not just set apart but reverberant -- and it… — 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 Image
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 Image
The problem is that we let special-occasion food become everyday food. That goes for soda and french fries. — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
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 Image
“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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image
“Of the seven deadly sins, surely it is pride that most afflicts the gardener.” — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
![“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/quotes/img-quotes/74b/michael-pollan-408_garden_anthropocentric-as-the-gardener-may-be-h_3049569.jpg)
