Michael Pollan Quotes

Shared dining fortifies us.

I was taken by the power that savoring a simple cup of coffee can have to connect people and create community.

I wanted to keep that message of food and family alive, and how it brings people together and builds relationships and communication.

A meal, however simple, is a moment of intersection. It is at once the most basic, the most fundamental, of our life's activities, maintaining the life of our bodies; shared with others it can be an occasion of joy and communion, uniting people deeply.

Mum wasn't at all religious, but she thought that going to the theatre was as important a ceremonial, communal experience that a person could have.

Food, in the end, in our own tradition, is something holy. It's not about nutrients and calories. It's about sharing. It's about honesty. It's about identity.

I get very excited when I go to a show - there are all these people who don't know each another who've come together to celebrate this amazing ritual. The making of community that theater provides is quite profound.

For many of us, sport has provided the continuity in our lives, the alternative family to the one we left behind. It gives us something to talk about, to preen about, to care about.

Music was a large part of my life. and it is a bit cliche, but it's a way people come together.

Baseball is like church. Many attend few understand.

Barbecue may not be the road to world peace, but it's a start.

It's around the table and in the preparation of food that we learn about ourselves and about the world.

There's something that feels very timeless about fandom.

Food is kind of the conduit that brings people together.

When you invite friends over, especially for food, with the food you want to send out a message of affection, of appreciation, of celebration. But also of culture - who your family is.

It doesn't matter where you are: theater brings people together.

No better way to bond than food.

You bring people together with food. You connect them and tie the fabric of society together through food.

To know a community is to know its food.

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.

To eat together is one of the greatest promoters of intimacy. It is the satisfaction in common of a material necessity of existence, and if you seek a loftier meaning in it, it is a communion.

When people come together around music, there's something ancient going on. It has to come from a genuine place and that's part of the challenge. You have to cultivate that authenticity everyday.

A life without stories would be no life at all. And stories bound us, did they not, one to another, the living to the dead, people to animals, people to the land?

Soccer is one of the most unifying activities amongst us.

Magic has always been an element of Witchcraft, but in the Craft its techniques were practiced within a context of community and connection.