Quote

I've always been interested in plants because I'm a gardener, so I have a basic understanding of botany and things like that, but it's all self-taught.

Michael Pollan

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Michael Pollan
Age: 69
Born: 1955
Born: February 6
Author
Journalist
Non-Fiction Writer
Professor
Writer
Michael Kevin Pollan
Understanding
Self
Botany
Always
Gardener
Things
Plants
Like
Basic
Plant
Interested
Taught

More quotes by Michael Pollan

Image
I mean, we're really making a quantum change in our relationship to the plant world with genetic modification.
Michael Pollan
Image
My hope is that if people have the knowledge, and if they actually see where their food comes from and have access to the information, they will make better ethical choices.
Michael Pollan
Image
I'm kind of a homebody, and the rhythm of my thinking and work is starting at home, going out and coming back, bringing back news, bringing back information, applying it.
Michael Pollan
Image
High-quality food is better for your health.
Michael Pollan
Image
There’s an assumption that if someone writes in the first person it’s self-indulgent and self-regarding. I just look at it as a tool to understand the world and my experience in it. It’s not a tool to understand myself.
Michael Pollan
Image
Eat more like the French. Or the Japanese. Or the Italians. Or the Greeks.
Michael Pollan
Image
Man is by definition the first and primary weed. Weeds are not the other. Weeds are us.
Michael Pollan
Image
The first step towards solving the omnivore's dilemma is knowledge: eating with full consciousness. When that happens, I have a lot of confidence that people will make good choices.
Michael Pollan
Image
The two things are synergistic, the health care crisis and the food crisis. Right now, to a large extent, the food industry's biggest product is patients for the health care industry and we have to break that.
Michael Pollan
Image
In general, science journalism concerns itself with what has been published in a handful of peer-reviewed journals - Nature, Cell, The New England Journal of Medicine - which set the agenda.
Michael Pollan
Image
Half of all broccoli grown commercially in America today is a single variety- Marathon- notable for it's high yield. The overwhelming majority of the chickens raised for meat in America are the same hybrid, the Cornish cross more than 99 percent of turkeys are the Broad-Breasted Whites.
Michael Pollan
Image
Without the potatoe, the balance of European power might never have tilted north
Michael Pollan
Image
Not everyone can afford to eat well in America, which is a literal shame, but most of us can: Americans spend less than 10 percent of their income on food, less than the citizens of any other nation.
Michael Pollan
Image
If you're cooking food, you don't have to count calories.
Michael Pollan
Image
A vegan in a Hummer has a lighter carbon footprint than a beef eater in a Prius.
Michael Pollan
Image
Cooking (from scratch) is the single most important thing we could do as a family to improve our health and general well-being.
Michael Pollan
Image
Eat mostly plants, especially leaves.
Michael Pollan
Image
The things journalists should pay attention to are the issues the political leadership agrees on, rather than to their supposed antagonisms.
Michael Pollan
Image
I'm not talking about having to consult Julia Child before you can take a pot off the rack. I think that's something we can all do more and do better.
Michael Pollan
Image
Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants.
Michael Pollan