Michael Pollan Quotes

I’ve become obsessed with the idea of reconciliation, particularly reconciliation with nature but with people too, of course. I think that travel has been a kind of search for that, a pursuit for unity and even an attempt to contribute to a sense of unity.

I am two with nature.

I also became close to nature, and am now able to appreciate the beauty with which this world is endowed.

Elves live in harmony with the world, and I try to do that.

If you can make nature and technology friends, then you can make everyone friends; you can make everyone intact. That's what women do a lot - they're the glue between a lot of things.

Living in balance and purity is the highest good for you and the earth.

Make friends with nature by working in harmony with her and she will make friends with you.

Where nature is sovereign, there is no need of austerity and self-denial.

I see the entire world as Eden, and every time you take an inch of it away, you must do so with respect.

Those who find beauty in all of nature will find themselves at one with the secrets of life itself.

Perhaps we too seldom reflect how much the life of Nature is one with the life of man, how unimportant or indeed merely seeming, the difference between them.

We are eternally linked not just to each other but our environment.

Chimpanzees, gorillas, orangutans have been living for hundreds of thousands of years in their forest, living fantastic lives, never overpopulating, never destroying the forest. I would say that they have been in a way more successful than us as far as being in harmony with the environment.

When man becomes reconciled to nature, when space becomes his true background, these words and concepts will have lost their meaning, and we will no longer have to use them.

Part of my life is spent designing in urban centers, and part of my life has been spent in factories. But the other part of my life is spent in nature.

Nature is based on harmony. So it says if we want to survive and become more like nature, then we actually have to understand that it's cooperation versus competition.

Conservation is a state of harmony between men and land.

There is nothing in which the birds differ more from man than the way in which they can build and yet leave a landscape as it was before.

Poetry and beauty are always making peace. When you read something beautiful you find coexistence; it breaks walls down.

We talk of our mastery of nature, which sounds very grand; but the fact is we respectfully adapt ourselves, first, to her ways.

We'd like to build a highway for healing and unity.

I love to think that animals and humans and plants and fishes and trees and stars and the moon are all connected.

You can't start with imbalance and end with peace, be that in your own body, in an ecosystem or between a government and its people. What we need to strive for is not perfection, but balance.

It is good to realize that if love and peace can prevail on earth, and if we can teach our children to honor nature's gifts, the joys and beauties of the outdoors will be here forever.

We should attempt to bring nature, houses, and human beings together in a higher unity.