Nature Quote by Michael Pollan Download Open image “A lawn is nature under totalitarian rule.” — Michael Pollan ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.4 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Nature Totalitarian
“The more serious about gardening I became, the more dubious lawns seemed. The problem for me was not, as it was for my father,… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
“. . . every society that grows extensive lawns could produce all its food on the same area, using the same resources, and .… — Bill Mollison 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 army and… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
“Our lawns manifest our cultural desire: they are static, they are artificial, and they are kept sexually immature.” — Derrick Jensen Copy Share Image
Another day it occurred to me that time as we know it doesn't exist in a lawn, since grass never dies or is allowed… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
“The average yard is both an ecological and agricultural desert. The prime offender is short-mown grass, which offers no habitat and nothing for people… — Toby Hemenway Copy Share Image
We don't really believe in mowing the lawn; we do it only to avoid unnecessary engagement with the neighbors. — Miranda July Copy Share Image
“The average lawn is an interesting beast: people plant it, then douse it with artificial fertilizers and dangerous pesticides to make it grow and… — Michael Braungart Copy Share Image
The grass is always greener once you don't have to mow a lawn anymore. — R. K. Milholland 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
It is indeed a surprising and fortunate fact that nature can be expressed by relatively low-order mathematical functions. — Rudolf Carnap Copy Share Image
“THIS tale of my sore-troubled life I write, To thank the God of nature, who conveyed My soul to me, and with such care… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Put on my J's and dance the whole night away Im naughty by nature like Im hip-hop hooray With my hands in the sky,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Borrow trouble for yourself, if that's your nature, but don't lend it to your neighbours. — Rudyard Kipling Copy Share Image
“Men mistook measurement for understanding. And they always had to put themselves at the center of everything. That was their greatest conceit. The earth… — Robert Harris Copy Share Image
“She was, he knew- and had known very early, he supposed- one of those rare and always lovely humans whose moral nature was so… — John Williams Copy Share Image
“When the water covers the earth the sun will vanish the darkess and the cold will come.When the last dragon and the last Elf… — Silvana de Mari Copy Share Image
Well, The Day the Earth Caught Fire was a story... I don't if anybody knows what it is but it was about... in the… — Val Guest Copy Share Image
“It is not the force of the wind, but the depth of the roots.” — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
The history of mankind interests us only as it exhibits a steady gain of truth and right, in the incessant conflict which it records… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
