Michael Pollan Quotes

You cannot eat apples planted from seeds. They must be grafted, cloned. - Michael Pollan

Yes, I very much like to have a personal stake in what I'm writing about. - Michael Pollan

Without the potato, the balance of European power might never have tilted north. - Michael Pollan

When you go to the grocery store, you find that the cheapest calories are the ones that are going to make you the fattest - the added sugars and fats in processed foods. - Michael Pollan

This is part of human nature, the desire to change consciousness. - Michael Pollan

There's been progress toward seeing that nature and culture are not opposing terms, and that wilderness is not the only kind of landscape for environmentalists to concern themselves with. - Michael Pollan

The Times has much less power than you think. I believe we attribute power to the media generally that it simply doesn't have. It's very convenient to blame the media, the same way we blame television for everything that's going wrong in society. - Michael Pollan

The things journalists should pay attention to are the issues the political leadership agrees on, rather than to their supposed antagonisms. - Michael Pollan

The larger meaning here is that mainstream journalists simply cannot talk about things that the two parties agree on; this is the black hole of American politics. - Michael Pollan

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

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