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.Michael Pollan
The garden suggests there might be a place where we can meet nature halfway.Michael Pollan
This is what is meant by 'eating locally.' You eat what technology makes available, and you root wherever you are grounded.Michael Pollan
Like the apple, the marijuana plant, too, has evolved to gratify human needs.Michael Pollan
This is the double satisfaction of gardening, it is at once our gateway to nature and our way to assert, gently, our own dominion over it. A form of 'happy slaving'.Michael Pollan
We automatically become more mindful and engaged when we do something ourselves.Michael Pollan
We are what we eat, and what we eat remakes the world.Michael Pollan
The garden is where a person can make their own personal work of art, using plants as one sort of paint and the soil as a canvas.Michael Pollan
In nature, specialization is usually a trade-off: a creature perfectly adapted to one niche will be in deep trouble when that niche disappears. Yet during their long domestication, plants have managed to break free of this bind, bestowing their gifts on, and receiving them from, a staggeringly array of creatures.Michael Pollan
The seed of a plant is intended to forestall everything that could interfere with a plant's project to reproduce, and to that end it has evolved to endure.Michael Pollan