Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
Tree planting is always a utopian enterprise, it seems to me, a wager on a future the planter doesn't necessarily expect to witness.
Michael Pollan
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
TAGS & TOPICS
Michael Pollan
Age: 69
Born: 1955
Born: February 6
Author
Journalist
Non-Fiction Writer
Professor
Writer
Michael Kevin Pollan
Expect
Wagers
Tree
Planting
Future
Utopian
Doesn
Gardening
Seems
Enterprise
Always
Witness
Planter
Necessarily
Wager
Garden
Planters
More quotes by Michael Pollan
The only one I have any trust in is storytelling - there's a couple I have a lot of trust in.
Michael Pollan
I try very hard to tell stories and not lecture. I try to approach things as an amateur and not an expert, so that when I'm doing something, I'm starting out in a place a lot like where my readers start out - which is to say, naïve.
Michael Pollan
The correlation between poverty and obesity can be traced to agricultural policies and subsidies.
Michael Pollan
The history of modern nutritionism has been a history of macronutrients at war: protein against carbs carbs against proteins, and then fats fats against carbs.
Michael Pollan
If you're cooking food, you don't have to count calories.
Michael Pollan
Man is by definition the first and primary weed. Weeds are not the other. Weeds are us.
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
Oil companies have gas stations. There's this whole huge structure that is about finding a new liquid for the tank. And the idea that maybe there shouldn't be a liquid, that maybe the best is an electrical grid, a sustainably powered electrical grid that we all plug into, that doesn't sit well with oil companies.
Michael Pollan
I think there's a real tension between capitalism and morality. That's not to say these systems aren't powerful and useful, but to assume that capitalism can somehow assure moral behavior or character, that's just a pipe dream.
Michael Pollan
The wonderful thing about food is you get three votes a day. Every one of them has the potential to change the world.
Michael Pollan
Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants.
Michael Pollan
Why don't we pay more attention to who our farmers are? We would never be as careless choosing an auto mechanic or babysitter as we are about who grows our food.
Michael Pollan
Eat mostly plants, especially leaves.
Michael Pollan
Of the seven deadly sins, surely it is pride that most commonly afflicts the gardener.
Michael Pollan
I realize that at a certain point if we're going to change our food system, it's going to be the next generation that's going to be critical. This generation is very interested in food issues, very concerned about things like animal welfare and the impact of the food system on the environment.
Michael Pollan
Don't eat anything your great-great grandmother wouldn't recognize as food. There are a great many food-like items in the supermarket your ancestors wouldn't recognize as food.. stay away from these
Michael Pollan
Every major food company now has an organic division. There's more capital going into organic agriculture than ever before.
Michael Pollan
A growing and increasingly influential movement of philosophers, ethicists, law professors and activists are convinced that the great moral struggle of our time will be for the rights of animals.
Michael Pollan
The problem is that we let special-occasion food become everyday food. That goes for soda and french fries.
Michael Pollan
We are at once the problem and the only possible solution to the problem.
Michael Pollan
