Michael Pollan

Design in nature is but a concatenation of accidents, culled by natural selection until the result is so beautiful or effective as to seem a miracle of purpose. ↗

— Michael Pollan

#natural-selection #beauty

...the grocery store poets do everything they can to encourage us in our willing suspension of disbelief. ↗

— Michael Pollan

#nature

A collective spasm of carbophobia seized the country,... ↗

— Michael Pollan

#stating-the-obvious #nature

We moderns are great compartmentalizers, perhaps never more so than when hungry. ↗

— Michael Pollan

#food #hunger #food

The dangerous pileup of modifiers is a hallmark of Joel's rhetorical style. ↗

— Michael Pollan

#nature

Be the kind of person who takes supplements -- then skip the supplements. ↗

— Michael Pollan

#vitamins #food

Avoid food products containing ingredients that are A) unfamiliar B) unpronounceable C) more than five in number or that include D) high-fructose corn syrup ↗

— Michael Pollan

#plant-based-foods #whole-food #food

Today promised not to be about the ecstasy of life on a farm. Today was the day we were "processing" broilers or, to abandon euphemism, killing chickens. ↗

— Michael Pollan

#life

My native tense is future conditional, a low simmer of unspecified worry being the usual condition. ↗

— Michael Pollan

#worry #nature

You cannot eat apples planted from seeds. They must be grafted, cloned. ↗

— Michael Pollan

#cannot #cloned #eat #grafted #must