Michael Pollan

“The dissolution of the everyday self is a hallmark of the mystical experience.”

“Ego death is not the annihilation of the self, but its relocation, from the center of the world to a position somewhere in the bleachers.”

“The trip is not on the drug, it’s in the mind.”

“Our species has coevolved with plants for millennia. We are wired for that relationship.”

“Cooking is a caring and nurturing act. It's kind of the ultimate gift for someone, to cook for them.”

“To eat with a consciousness of all that is at stake is to take on a responsibility, but it is also to reap a reward.”

“Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants.”

“Don't eat anything your great-grandmother wouldn't recognize as food.”

“You are what you eat is a truism hard to argue with, and yet it is, as a visit to a feedlot suggests, incomplete, for you are what what you eat eats, too.”

“If it came from a plant, eat it; if it was made in a plant, don't.”

“The single greatest lesson the garden teaches is that our relationship to the planet need not be zero-sum.”

“Avoid food products containing ingredients that a third-grader cannot pronounce.”

“Shake the hand that feeds you.”

“The way we eat represents our most profound engagement with the natural world.”

“We are not only what we eat, but how we eat, too.”

“The shared meal is the principal site of our socialization.”

“Very simply, we subsidize high-fructose corn syrup in this country and we tax broccoli.”

“The industrial food system is a system of opacity. The consumer is kept in the dark about the origins of their food and the methods used to produce it.”

“Don't eat anything with more than five ingredients, or ingredients you can't pronounce.”

“We are living in a world of nutritional inflation. The same quantity of food provides less nutrition than it did 50 years ago.”