The garden suggests there might be a place where we can meet nature halfway.
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Ripe 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
My writing is remarkably non-confessional; you actually learn very little about me.
Michael Pollan
The big journals and Nobel laureates are the equivalent of Congressional leaders in science journalism.
Michael Pollan
Are we, finally, speaking of nature or culture when we speak of a rose (nature), that has been bred (culture) so that its blossoms (nature) make men imagine (culture) the sex of women (nature) It may be this sort of confusion that we need more of.
Michael Pollan
I mean, we're really making a quantum change in our relationship to the plant world with genetic modification.
Michael Pollan
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