Quote by Michael Pollan Download Open image ““There is every reason to believe that corn has succeeded in domesticating us.”” — Michael Pollan ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.7 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare
Corn is the hero of its own story, and though we humans played a crucial supporting role in its rise to world domination, it… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
“Corn might be the epidemic that kills us, but I've always loved staring at a big field of it, perfectly planted.” — Nickolas Butler Copy Share Image
“We got a saying around here about our corn, ‘it grows knee-high by the Fourth of July.” — Richard Puz Copy Share Image
“If you were food, you would be corn. I dont know why, i just sense corn in you.” — Lizbeth Mori Copy Share Image
“You see, the genetics of the corn used in those fritters are nothing like what Mother Nature originally created.” — Jayson Lusk Copy Share Image
“They said this would be the last year for corn. It needed too many fertilizers, and the oil to make them—the oil to make… — Jeri Smith-Ready Copy Share Image
“Corn is at the core of modern agribusiness, the most important food crop in North America. In no other crop are the values of… — Carol Deppe Copy Share Image
“So this is what commodity corn can do to a cow: industrialize the miracle of nature that is a ruminant, taking this sunlight- and… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
“The corn is planted first, followed by beans, then squash between the rows.They are called the Three Sisters. They sustain each other, the earth,… — Elizabeth Haydon Copy Share Image
Corn occupies a really special role in what I've been calling American agro-economics. — Hope Jahren 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
