“The 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.”
"We learn from other people’s cooking, then we start making our own."
- Michael Pollan
Learning
"The shared meal elevates eating from a mechanical process of fueling the body to a ritual of family and community, from the mere animal biology to an act of culture."
- Michael Pollan
Connection to Earth
"The garden suggests there might be a place where we can meet nature halfway."
- Michael Pollan
Connection to Earth
"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. Stay away from these."
- Michael Pollan
Health
"Came from a plant, eat it; was made in a plant, don't."
- Michael Pollan
Health
"What starts on Monday should carry through to Friday; that is, enthusiasm."
- Byron Pulsifer
Environment
"Technology is destructive only in the hands of people who do not realize that they are one and the same process as the universe."
- Alan Watts
Environment
"Inability to accept the mystic experience is more than an intellectual handicap. Lack of awareness of the basic unity of organism and environment is a serious and dangerous hallucination. For in a civilization equipped with immense technological power, the sense of alienation between man and nature leads to the use of technology in a hostile spirit—to the 'conquest' of nature instead of intelligent co-operation with nature."
- Alan Watts
Environment
"Leave nothing but footprints, take nothing but photos, kill nothing but time."
Environment
"Bees are a sign of environmental health. A world without bees is a world that has lost its way."
Environment