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The environment is not just around you, it's passing through you.

Michael Pollan

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Michael Pollan
Age: 69
Born: 1955
Born: February 6
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Are we, finally, speaking of nature or culture when we speak of a rose (nature), that has been bred (culture) so that its blossoms (nature) make men imagine (culture) the sex of women (nature)? It may be this sort of confusion that we need more of.
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