The whole of nature is a conjugation of the verb to eat, in the active and passive. — 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
“Daily, our eating turns nature into culture, transforming the body of the world into our bodies and minds.” — 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
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
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
“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 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
... 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
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
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
“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
“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
“It may be that a taste for Bittor’s cooking, for his obsessive, slightly mad investigation into the nature of wood and fire… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
“The problem is that once science has reduced a complex phenomenon to a couple of variables, however important they may be, the… — 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
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
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
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
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
“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
“If the omnivore’s dilemma is to determine what is good and safe to eat amid the myriad and occasionally risky choices nature… — 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
The garden suggests there might be a place where we can meet nature halfway. — 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
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
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
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
“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 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
