Michael Pollan Quotes

We have a well and a garden. I crawl around in the mud and grow great vegetables.

It's so easy to grow in the ground! It's truly the easiest thing to grow. You can bring kale to you.

Weather means more when you have a garden. There's nothing like listening to a shower and thinking how it is soaking in around your green beans.

I just planted the family vegetables yesterday. You name it, I grow it.

First, kids should be involved in the production of their own food. They have to get their hands in the dirt, they have to grow things. They also have to become sensually stimulated, and the way to begin is with a bakery.

Working with the earth is peaceful for me.

We grow our own vegetables.

I know it sounds ridiculous, but I haven't quite got over the miracle that you plant things, and they do sprout up.

It's funny; as I get older I'm reverting to my roots - I want to plant stuff.

When I was a kid, we always had big gardens, acres of stuff we grew out in the yard.

I think there is some real therapy in getting your hands in the dirt and working with food.

Keep the soil healthy and the bad seed won't grow.

Compost makes houseplants very happy.

I'm mad about gardening. I have an allotment on the other side of Hampstead Heath, and I keep three hens in my garden.

Literally, if someone says I am grounded, everyday I am at home, I actually have my hands in the ground and dirt under my fingernails. I don't have a staff to do it all for me. I still plant a seed and I'm amazed it grows.

I love working in the garden.

I'm usually pretty good in the garden.

My partner loves gardening and beekeeping and chickens and all that stuff.

I like gardening.

I have been growing vegetables since I was a boy. When I was about 17 I was the only one of five children living at home. My parents were ill and I took over the vegetable garden and I have had one ever since.

My parents had a gardener when I was growing up, and he and I would dig in the dirt together - my mom and dad were definitely not digging with me! When I was 5, he helped me plant some corn in our backyard, and I remember how fascinating it was to watch it grow. Little did I know that 50 years later I'd be growing corn in a different way.

I still love farming and gardening and things like that in the summertime.

I abhor a hoe. I am fond of flowers but not of dirt, and had rather buy them than cultivate them.

The glory of gardening: hands in the dirt, head in the sun, heart with nature. To nurture a garden is to feed not just on the body, but the soul.

No occupation is so delightful to me as the culture of the earth, and no culture comparable to that of the garden.