Michael Pollan Sayings and Quotes

Below you will find our collection of inspirational, wise, and humorous old Michael Pollan quotes, Michael Pollan sayings, and Michael Pollan proverbs, collected over the years from a variety of sources.'

But that's the challenge-to change the system more than it changes you. Michael Pollan
Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants. Michael Pollan
Don't eat anything your great-grandmother wouldn't recognize as food. Michael Pollan
Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants. Michael Pollan
Don't eat anything your great-grandmother wouldn't recognize as food. Michael Pollan
Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants. Michael Pollan
Don't eat breakfast cereals that change the color of your milk. Michael Pollan
Unlike any other form of thought, daydreaming is its own reward. Michael Pollan
Don't get your fuel from the same place your car does Michael Pollan
Unlike any other form of thought, daydreaming is its own reward. Michael Pollan
Don't eat anything your great grandmother wouldn't recognize as food Michael Pollan
Corn is an efficient way to get energy calories off the land and soybeans are an efficient way of getting protein off the land, so we've designed a food system that produces a lot of cheap corn and soybeans resulting in a lot of cheap fast food. Michael Pollan
Corn is a greedy crop, as farmers will tell you. Michael Pollan
Corn is the hero of its own story, and though we humans played a crucial supporting role in its rise to world domination, it would be wrong to suggest we have been calling the shots, or acting always in our own best interests. Indeed, there is every reason to believe that corn has succeeded in domesticating us. Michael Pollan
Don't eat breakfast cereals that change the color of your milk. Michael Pollan
Raw foodists are kind of paddling upstream against evolution. The only reason they can do it and they don't all keel over is that they are using blenders. They're very Cuisinart dependent. Michael Pollan
Ecology also teaches that all life on earth can be viewed as a competition among species for the solar energy captured by green plants and stored in the form of complex carbon molecules. A food chain is a system for passing those calories on to species that lack the pant's unique ability to synthesize them from sunlight. Michael Pollan
Fairness forces you - even when you're writing a piece highly critical of, say, genetically modified food, as I have done - to make sure you represent the other side as extensively and as accurately as you possibly can. Michael Pollan
Meat is a mighty contributor to climate change and other environmental problems. The amount of meat we're eating is one of the leading causes of climate change. It's as important as the kind of car you drive - whether you eat meat a lot or how much meat you eat. Michael Pollan
Meat is a tremendous environmental challenge. It contributes enormous amounts of greenhouse gas, especially beef eating. Michael Pollan
The problem is that we let special-occasion food become everyday food. That goes for soda and french fries. Michael Pollan
Don’t eat anything your great-great grandmother wouldn’t recognize as food. There are a great many food-like items in the supermarket your ancestors wouldn’t recognize as food (Go-Gurt? Breakfast-cereal bars? Nondairy creamer? Stay away from these. Michael Pollan
Food is not just fuel. Food is about family, food is about community, food is about identity. And we nourish all of those things when we eat well. Michael Pollan
Daydreaming does not enjoy tremendous prestige in our culture, which tends to regard it as unproductive thought. Michael Pollan
Every major food company now has an organic division. There's more capital going into organic agriculture than ever before. Michael Pollan
The gardener cultivates wildness, but he does so carefully and respectfully, in full recognition of its mystery. Michael Pollan
Dreams of innocence are just that; they usually depend on a denial of reality that can be its own form of hubris. Michael Pollan
Obesity rates are inversely correlated with the amount of time in food preparation. The more time a nation devotes to food preparation at home, the lower its rate of obesity. Michael Pollan
Food is not just fuel. Food is about family, food is about community, food is about identity. And we nourish all those things when we eat well. Michael Pollan