There's a lot of research that suggests that organic yields are close or superior to conventional yields depending on factors like climate.… — 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 food system is a very complex beast. There are people who are going to get their food at Wal-Mart or at… — 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
We're supposed to show people how the world is, to give them the tools they need to make good decisions as citizens… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
One of the skills of a journalist, though, is to find people who can teach him what he needs to know. So… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
we ask for too much salvation by legislation. All we need to do is empower individuals with the right philosophy and 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
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 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
We need to create incentives for our ranchers and farmers to manage their lands to maximize carbon sequestration. — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
When a livestock farmer is willing to "practice complexity"-to choreograph the symbiosis of several different animals, each of which has been allowed… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
To put it bluntly, we now need to reverse course. We need more highly skilled small farmers in more places all across… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
There are many people who don't do well on a vegetarian or vegan diet, that for them, meat is a very nutritious… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
The whole problem of industrial agriculture is putting all of your eggs in one basket. We need to diversify our food chains… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
That anyone should need to write a book advising people to "eat food" could be taken as a measure of our alienation… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
Studies show that organically grown crops produce more of the things (ascorbic acid, lycopenes, resveratrol, flavonols in general, etc) that our bodies… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
Another thing cooking is, or can be, is a way to honor the things we're eating, the animals and plants and fungi… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
Without such a thing as fast food, there would be no need for slow food, — 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
