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Plant Quotes by Michael Pollan
- Ripe vegetables were magic to me. Unharvested, the garden bristled with possibility. I would quicken at the sight of a ripe tomato, sounding its redness…
- Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants. That, more or less, is the short answer to the supposedly incredibly complicated and confusing question of what…
- Originally, the atoms of carbon from which we're made were floating in the air, part of a carbon dioxide molecule. The only way to recruit…
- I mean, we're really making a quantum change in our relationship to the plant world with genetic modification.
- Eat mostly plants, especially leaves.
- When we mistake what we can know for all there is to know, a healthy appreciation of one's ignorance in the face of a mystery…
- Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants.
- The single greatest lesson the garden teaches is that our relationship to the planet need not be zero-sum, and that as long as the sun…
- If it came from a plant, eat it; if it was made in a plant, don't.
- Another thing cooking is, or can be, is a way to honor the things we're eating, the animals and plants and fungi that have been…
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- Some bioengineering is good, especially if it results in plants that are more drought-resistant or perennial food crops. — Margaret Atwood
- A beginner must look on himself as one setting out to make a garden for his Lord's pleasure, on most unfruitful soil… — Teresa of Avila
- We're losing biodiversity globally at an alarming rate, and we need a cornucopia of different plants and animals, for the planet's health… — Diane Ackerman
- Natural abilities are like natural plants, that need pruning by study; and studies themselves do give forth directions too much at large,… — Francis Bacon
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- For myself I hold no preferences among flowers, so long as they are wild, free, spontaneous. Bricks to all greenhouses! Black thumb… — Edward Abbey
- No one in the United States has become seriously ill or has died because of any kind of accident at a civilian… — Joe Barton
- The Nuclear Regulatory Commission is continually reviewing its safety plan for the 100-plus operating civilian nuclear reactors in the United States. And… — Joe Barton
- A tree is known by its fruit; a man by his deeds. A good deed is never lost; he who sows courtesy… — Saint Basil
- If I am constantly working, my relationships fail. So at least now I can have enough time to write a happy record.… — Adele