Michael Pollan Quotes About Community

Quotes about: Community

• 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.

• 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

  Food, Animal, Community

  Michael Pollan (2008). “In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto”, p.156, Penguin

• 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

  Family, Food, Community

• Food is also about pleasure, about community, about family and spirituality, about our relationship to the natural world, and about expressing our identity. As long as humans have been taking meals together, eating has been as much about culture as it has been about biology.

  Michael Pollan

  Long, Community, Together

  Michael Pollan (2008). “In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto”, p.16, Penguin

• Human health should now be thought of as a collective property of the human-associate d microbiota, as one group of researchers recently concluded in a landmark review article on microbial ecology - that is, as a function of the community, not the individual.

  Michael Pollan

  Community, Groups, Individual

• Farms produce a lot more than food; they also produce a kind of landscape and a kind of community.

  Michael Pollan

  Community, Landscape, Kind

  Michael Pollan (2009). “The Omnivore's Dilemma: The Search for a Perfect Meal in a Fast-Food World”, p.133, Bloomsbury Publishing

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