Michael Pollan - Garden Quotes

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

Michael Pollan

A garden should make you feel you've entered privileged space — a place not just set apart but reverberant — and it seems to me that, to achieve this, the gardener must put some kind of twist on the existing landscape, turn its prose into something nearer poetry.

Michael Pollan

It has become much harder, in the past century, to tell where the garden leaves off and pure nature begins.

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 from deep amidst the undifferentiated green. To lift a bean plant's hood of heartshaped leaves and discover a clutch of long slender pods handing underneath could make me catch my breath.

Michael Pollan