All Michael Pollan Quotes
- Nature abhors a garden. Abhors
- Why don't we pay more attention to who our farmers are? We would never be as careless choosing an auto mechanic or babysitter as we… Attention
- Corn is a greedy crop, as farmers will tell you. Corn
- There's a schizoid quality to our relationship with animals, in which sentiment and brutality exist side by side. Half the dogs in America will receive… America
- Don't eat anything your great-grandmother wouldn't recognize as food. Don't eat anything with more than five ingredients, or ingredients you can't pronounce. Eat
- You cannot eat apples planted from seeds. They must be grafted, cloned. Apples
- I think perfect objectivity is an unrealistic goal; fairness, however, is not Fairness
- Man is by definition the first and primary weed. Weeds are not the other. Weeds are us. Definition
- The correlation between poverty and obesity can be traced to agricultural policies and subsidies. Agricultural
- A lawn is nature under totalitarian rule. Environment
- The environment is not just around you, it's passing through you. Environment
- The great virtue of a diversified food economy, like a diverse pasture or farm, is its ability to withstand any shock. The important thing is… Ability
- Farms produce a lot more than food; they also produce a kind of landscape and a kind of community. Community
- Are we, finally, speaking of nature or culture when we speak of a rose (nature), that has been bred (culture) so that its blossoms (nature)… Been
- Eat all the junk food you want as long as you cook it yourself. All
- High-quality food is better for your health. Better
- People in Slow Food understand that food is an environmental issue. Environmental
- Every major food company now has an organic division. There's more capital going into organic agriculture than ever before. Agriculture
- Without the potatoe, the balance of European power might never have tilted north Balance
- Avoid food products containing ingredients that are A) unfamiliar B) unpronounceable C) more than five in number or that include D) high-fructose corn syrup Avoid