The wonderful thing about food is you get three votes a day. Every one of them has the potential to change the world.
Michael PollanTo eat with a fuller consciousness of all that is at stake might sound like a burden, but in practice few things in life afford quite as much satisfaction.
Michael PollanFor great many species today, fitness means the ability to get along in a world in which humankind has become the most powerful evolutionary force.
Michael PollanThe corporatization of something as basic and intimate as eating is, for many of us today, a good place to draw the line.
Michael PollanThe single greatest lesson the garden teaches is that our relationship to the planet need not be zero-sum, and that as long as the sun still shines and people still can plan and plant, think and do, we can, if we bother to try, find ways to provide for ourselves without diminishing the world.
Michael PollanWe're spending, on average, 27 minutes a day cooking and about four minutes cleaning up, so basically about a half hour. Any one of TV shows takes twice as long to watch as that, which I think is very interesting because the main excuse people give for not cooking is they don't have time to cook, but somehow they're finding time to watch other people cook or eat on TV.
Michael Pollan