Achievement Quote by Michael Pollan

“Looking at the world from other species' points of view is a cure for the disease of human self-importance. You suddenly realize that consciousness - which we value and we consider the crowning achievement of nature, human consciousness - is really just another set of tools for getting along in the world.”

Michael Pollan

★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.2 out of 5 (8 ratings)

Achievement Getting along Human consciousness Nature Philosophy of Mind Success Value View World

More by Michael Pollan

“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

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

Image

The problem is that we let special-occasion food become everyday food. That goes for soda and french fries.

Michael Pollan

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

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

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

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

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

Image

“Of the seven deadly sins, surely it is pride that most afflicts the gardener.”

Michael Pollan

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

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

Image

This is part of human nature, the desire to change consciousness.

Michael Pollan

Image

Explore all 584 Michael Pollan quotes

More Achievement quotes

You, of Canada, are building a magnificent record of achievement. My country rejoices in it.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

Image

“If attempting to make the world a civilized one, makes you a bad woman in the eyes of the dumb patriarchal society, then, by…

Abhijit Naskar

Image

One achieves true human dignity only when one serves. Only he is great who subjects himself to taking part in the achievement of a…

Jose Antonio Primo de Rivera

Image

Needs cause motivation. Deep-rooted desires for esteem, affection, belonging, achievement, self-actualization, power, and control motivate us to push for what we want and need…

Lorii Myers