Measured against the Problem We Face, planting a garden sounds pretty benign, I know, but in fact itโs one of the most powerful things an individual can do - to reduce your carbon footprint, sure, but more important, to reduce your sense of dependence and dividedness: to change the cheap-energy mind.
Michael PollanFor at the same time many people seem eager to extend the circle of our moral consideration to animals, in our factory farms and laboratories we are inflicting more suffering on more animals than at any time in history.
Michael PollanThereโs an assumption that if someone writes in the first person itโs self-indulgent and self-regarding. I just look at it as a tool to understand the world and my experience in it. Itโs not a tool to understand myself.
Michael Pollan