Michael Pollan

“The desire to get back to nature is a powerful one in every society.”

“The garden suggests there might be a place where we can meet nature halfway.”

“For is there any practice less selfish, any labor less alienated, any time less wasted, than preparing something delicious and nourishing for people you love?”

“The cook in the kitchen preparing a meal... is in fact the magician in the middle of it all.”

“Is it just a coincidence that as the portion of our income spent on food has declined, the share of our income spent on health care has soared?”

“Culture is a second nature that tells us what to eat and how to eat it.”

“Gardening, I’ve come to believe, is a political act.”

“To break the spell of the supermarket, you need to be able to see the chains of connection between the food you eat and the places and people that produced it.”

“Our food system is a mess. It's a national security threat. It's a public health threat. It's an environmental threat.”

“The wonderful thing about cooking is that it is a profound act of intimacy and generosity.”

“What I’ve discovered is that the best way to get a sense of a place is to eat it.”

“When you cook, you’re not just making a meal; you’re making a memory.”

“The Western diet has delivered us from the kingdom of vegetables to the kingdom of animals and processed foods.”

“The garden is a kind of friendship with the earth.”

“It is not a trivial matter to be able to gaze up at the night sky and know your place in the universe.”

“Capitalism is a machine for producing desires.”

“The experience of CSA is a weekly reminder of the fact that we are part of a food chain.”

“Cooking is one of the most interesting and worthwhile things we humans do.”

“The best meals are those prepared by loving hands.”

“A garden is a place where the dramas of life and death and sex and betrayal are played out every day.”