The single greatest lesson the garden teaches is that our relationship to the planet need not be zero-sum, and that as long as the sun still shines and people still can plan and plant, think and do, we can, if we bother to try, find ways to provide for ourselves without diminishing the world.Michael Pollan
You are what what you eat eats.Michael Pollan
We are not only what we eat, but how we eat, too.Michael Pollan
The way we eat represents our most profound engagement with the natural world.Michael Pollan
In fact, cooking allows us to put our stamp on nature, transforming the stuff of the earth into culture.Michael Pollan
Industrial eating is indeed a 'problem', one very much worth worrying about.Michael Pollan
Much of our food system depends on our not knowing much about it, beyond the price disclosed by the checkout scanner.Michael Pollan
To eat with a fuller consciousness of all that is at stake might sound like a burden, but in practice few things in life can afford quite as much satisfaction.Michael Pollan
Compared to a bunch of carrots, a package of Twinkies, to take one iconic processed foodlike substance as an example, is a highly complicated, high-tech piece of manufacture.Michael Pollan
This is the great challenge and great tragedy of contemporary eating: negotiating the dialectic between convenience and quality, speed and slowness, cheapness and expensiveness.Michael Pollan