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Michael Pollan quotes about nature

American Educator February 6, 1955

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The green thumb is equable in the face of nature's uncertainties; he moves among her mysteries without feeling the need for control or explanations or once-and-for-all solutions. To garden well is to be happy amid the babble of the objective world, untroubled by its refusal to be reduced by our ideas of it, its indomitable rankness. Michael Pollan
A charge often levied against organic agriculture is that it is more philosophy than science. There's some truth to this indictment, if that it what it is, though why organic farmers should feel defensive about it is itself a mystery, a relic, perhaps, of our fetishism of science as the only credible tool with which to approach nature. ... The peasant rice farmer who introduces ducks and fish to his paddy may not understand all the symbiotic relationships he's put in play--that the ducks and... Michael Pollan
Michael Pollan quote: "This is part of human nature, the desire to change consciousness."
This is part of human nature, the desire to change consciousness. Michael Pollan
There's been progress toward seeing that nature and culture are not opposing terms, and that wilderness is not the only kind of landscape for environmentalists to concern themselves with. Michael Pollan
Michael Pollan quote: "Daily, our eating turns nature into culture, transforming the..."
Daily, our eating turns nature into culture, transforming the body of the world into our bodies and minds. Michael Pollan
Michael Pollan quote: "It has become much harder, in the past century, to tell where..."
It has become much harder, in the past century, to tell where the garden leaves off and pure nature begins. Michael Pollan
...every new genetically engineered plant is a unique event in nature, bringing its own set of genetic contingencies. This means that the reliability or safety of one genetically modified plant doesn't necessarily guarantee the reliability or safety of the next. Michael Pollan
More grass means less forest; more forest less grass. But either-or is a construction more deeply woven into our culture than into nature, where even antagonists depend on one another and the liveliest places are the edges, the in-betweens or both-ands..... Relations are what matter most. Michael Pollan
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
Michael Pollan quote: "The garden suggests there might be a place where we can meet..."
The garden suggests there might be a place where we can meet nature halfway. Michael Pollan
So this is what commodity corn can do to a cow: industrialize the miracle of nature that is a ruminant, taking this sunlight- and prairie grass-powered organism and turning it into the last thing we need: another fossil fuel machine. This one, however, is able to suffer. Michael Pollan
Michael Pollan quote: "The whole of nature is a conjugation of the verb to eat, in..."
The whole of nature is a conjugation of the verb to eat, in the active and passive. Michael Pollan
Michael Pollan quote: "A lawn is nature under totalitarian rule."
A lawn is nature under totalitarian rule. Michael Pollan

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