One USDA scientist went so far as to claim that there has never been a documented case of food-borne illness from eating fermented vegetables.
Michael PollanOf the seven deadly sins, surely it is pride that most commonly afflicts the gardener.
Michael PollanMan is by definition the first and primary weed. Weeds are not the other. Weeds are us.
Michael PollanThe 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