Michael Pollan quotes

Were the walls of our meat industry to become transparent, literally or even figuratively, we would not long continue to raise, kill, and eat animals the way we do. (Michael Pollan)

The garden suggests there might be a place where we can meet nature halfway.

Michael Pollan

Eating's not a bad way to get to know a place.

Michael Pollan

But that's the challenge -- to change the system more than it changes you.

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Dreams of innocence are just that; they usually depend on a denial of reality that can be its own form of hubris.

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Design in nature is but a concatenation of accidents, culled by natural selection until the result is so beautiful or effective as to seem a miracle of purpose.

Michael Pollan

So that's us: processed corn, walking.

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When chickens get to live like chickens, they'll taste like chickens, too.

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Is there any practice less selfish, any time less wasted than preparing something nourishing and delicious for the people you love?

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This, for many people, is what's most offensive about hunting-to some, disgusting: that it encourages, or allows, us not only to kill but to take a certain pleasure in killing.

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Don't eat anything your great-grandmother wouldn't recognize as food. (Michael Pollan)

If it came from a plant, eat it; if it was made in a plant, don't.

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The correlation between poverty and obesity can be traced to agricultural policies and subsidies.

Michael Pollan

I think perfect objectivity is an unrealistic goal; fairness, however, is not.

Michael Pollan

A lawn is nature under totalitarian rule.

Michael Pollan

High-quality food is better for your health.

Michael Pollan

Rule No.37 The whiter the bread, the sooner you'll be dead.

Michael Pollan

For it is only by forgetting that we ever really drop the thread of time and approach the experience of living in the present moment, so elusive in ordinary hours.

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Not everyone can afford to eat well in America, which is a literal shame, but most of us can: Americans spend less than 10 percent of their income on food, less than the citizens of any other nation.

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Seeds have the power to preserve species, to enhance cultural as well as genetic diversity, to counter economic monopoly and to check the advance of conformity on all its many fronts.

Michael Pollan

Evolution doesn't depend on will or intention to work; it is, almost by definition, an unconscious, unwilled process. (Michael Pollan)

Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants.

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The shared meal elevates eating from a mechanical process of fueling the body to a ritual of family and community, from the mere animal biology to an act of culture.

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What an extraordinary achievement for a civilization: to have developed the one diet that reliably makes its people sick!

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The human animal is adapted to, and apparently can thrive on, an extraordinary range of different diets, but the Western diet, however you define it, does not seem to be one of them.

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Michael Pollan

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Occupation: American Author
Born: February 6, 1955
Quotes count: 117
Wikipedia: Michael Pollan

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