Michael Pollan Short Quotes

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Spend as much time enjoying the meal as it took to prepare it

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Eat all the junk food you want as long as you cook it yourself.

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Time is the missing ingredient in our recipes-and in our lives.

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Unlike any other form of thought, daydreaming is its own reward.

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

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Don't eat anything your great-grandmother wouldn't recognize as food.

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"Industrial organic" might sound like an oxymoron, but it is a reality.

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Be the kind of person who takes supplements - then skip the supplements.

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Without such a thing as fast food, there would be no need for slow food,

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We are at once the problem and the only possible solution to the problem.

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Eat more like the French. Or the Japanese. Or the Italians. Or the Greeks.

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Experiences that banish irony are much better for living than for writing.

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

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

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

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Avoid food products containing ingredients that a third-grader cannot pronounce.

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Instead of eating exclusively from the sun, humanity now began to sip petroleum.

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Think of agriculture as something the grasses did to people to conquer the trees.

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Don't ingest foods made in places where everyone is required to wear a surgical cap.

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

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

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Farms produce a lot more than food; they also produce a kind of landscape and a kind of community.

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There is nothing wrong with special occasion foods, as long as every day is not a special occasion.

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Twenty thousand birds moved away from me as one, like a ground-hugging white cloud, clucking softly.

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Without its daydreams, the self is apt to shrink down to the size and shape of the estimation of others

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

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

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The gardener cultivates wildness, but he does so carefully and respectfully, in full recognition of its mystery.

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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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People don't eat nutrients, they eat foods, and foods can behave very differently than the nutrients they contain.

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