The best farming systems are ones where animals and plants are put into a synergistic relationship.
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 PollanRipe vegetables were magic to me. Unharvested, the garden bristled with possibility. I would quicken at the sight of a ripe tomato, sounding its redness from deep amidst the undifferentiated green. To lift a bean plant's hood of heartshaped leaves and discover a clutch of long slender pods handing underneath could make me catch my breath.
Michael Pollan