Michael Pollan Quotes About Gardens

Quotes about: Gardens

• 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.

  Michael Pollan

  Zero, Garden, Thinking

  "Don't give up". www.theguardian.com. June 5, 2008.

• Tree planting is always a utopian enterprise, it seems to me, a wager on a future the planter doesn't necessarily expect to witness.

  Michael Pollan

  Garden, Tree, Wagers

  Michael Pollan (2007). “Second Nature: A Gardener's Education”, p.152, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

• The garden suggests there might be a place where we can meet nature halfway.

  Michael Pollan

  Nature, Food, Garden

  Michael Pollan (2007). “Second Nature: A Gardener's Education”, p.64, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

• It has become much harder, in the past century, to tell where the garden leaves off and pure nature begins.

  Michael Pollan

  Past, Garden, Century

  Michael Pollan (2001). “The Botany of Desire: A Plant's-Eye View of the World”, p.20, Random House

• Seeds have the power to preserve species, to enhance cultural as well as genetic diversity, to counter economic monopoly and to check the advance of conformity on all its many fronts.

  Michael Pollan

  Garden, Diversity, Conformity

  Michael Pollan (2007). “Second Nature: A Gardener's Education”, p.224, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

• Nature abhors a garden.

  Michael Pollan

  Garden, Gardening

  "The Botany of Desire: A Plant's-Eye View of the World". Book by Michael Pollan, www.nytimes.com. 2001.

• 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

  Garden, Sight, Vegetables

  Michael Pollan (2007). “Second Nature: A Gardener's Education”, p.17, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

• A garden should make you feel you've entered privileged space -- a place not just set apart but reverberant -- and it seems to me that, to achieve this, the gardener must put some kind of twist on the existing landscape, turn its prose into something nearer poetry.

  Michael Pollan

  Garden, Space, Twists

  Michael Pollan (2007). “Second Nature: A Gardener's Education”, p.244, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

• The 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

  Moving, Garden, Ideas

• Measured against the Problem We Face, planting a garden sounds pretty benign, I know, but in fact it’s one of the most powerful things an individual can do - to reduce your carbon footprint, sure, but more important, to reduce your sense of dependence and dividedness: to change the cheap-energy mind.

  Michael Pollan

  Powerful, Garden, Carbon Footprint

  "Why Bother?". www.nytimes.com. April 22, 2008.

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