Michael Pollan - Nature Quotes

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

Michael Pollan
The way we eat represents our most profound engagement with the natural world. Daily, our eating turns nature into culture, transforming the body of the world into our bodies and minds.

Michael Pollan
Are we, finally, speaking of nature or culture when we speak of a rose (nature), that has been bred (culture) so that its blossoms (nature) make men imagine (culture) the sex of women (nature)? It may be this sort of confusion that we need more of.

Michael Pollan
More grass means less forest; more forest less grass. But either-or is a construction more deeply woven into our culture than into nature, where even antagonists depend on one another and the liveliest places are the edges, the in-betweens or both-ands..... Relations are what matter most.

Michael Pollan
Eat foods made from ingredients that you can picture in their raw state or growing in nature.

Michael Pollan
Most of the time pests and disease are just nature's way of telling the farmer he's doing something wrong.

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

Michael Pollan
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 to flower and set seed. Lawns are nature purged of sex or death. No wonder Americans like them so much.

Michael Pollan
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
If we address frankly what is evoked by cheese, I think it becomes clear why so little is said. So what does cheese evoke? Damp dark cellars, molds, mildews and mushrooms galore, dirty laundry and high school locker rooms, digestive processes and visceral fermentations, he-goats which do not remind of Chanel... In sum, cheese reminds of dubious, even unsavory places, both in nature and in our own organisms. And yet we love it.

Michael Pollan