Michael Pollan Quotes

You are what what you eat eats.

Your worm is your only emperor for diet; we fat all creatures else to fat us, and we fat ourselves for maggots.

You are what you eat, but eventually you become what eats you.

So many artists today will talk about green this or organic that, but you know what? What we are eating, I think, is really doing a lot of bad to us. I'm not sure if I'm the guy to do it right now, because I have to clean up my house too, so to speak, but we've got to start addressing this. Too many people are getting sick today.

Always acknowledge your position in the food chain... They eat because you grow the food.

Doing this movie [Fast Food Nation] made me realize that our bodies are digesting things that it's not meant to digest. It's pretty bad for you. The cast is [now] very, very aware of where we get our food and what we put in our bodies.

The whole of nature is a conjugation of the verb to eat, in the active and passive.

A man may fish with the worm that hath eat of a king, and eat of the fish that hath fed of that worm

If we recognise that every ecosystem can also be viewed as a food web, we can think of it as a circular, interlacing nexus of plant animal relationships (rather than a stratified pyramid with man at the apex)… Each species, be it a form of bacteria or deer, is knitted together in a network of interdependence, however indirect the links may be.

For we would no longer need any reminding that however we choose to feed ourselves, we eat by the grace of nature, not industry, and what we're eating is never anything more or less than the body of the world.

The whole of nature, as has been said, is a conjugation of the verb to eat, in the active and in the passive.

Even people who like the kind of food on offer, are coming to recognize that eating from this food chain is not conducive to good health.

I always say that environment always affects the food.

Food is an important part, not just in our physical well-being, but in our psychological well-being.

We are dependent on each other. Therefore, replenishing the soil, replenishing society and being part of one continuum - that's the new story.

When a man diets, he eats oatmeal in addition to everything else he usually eats.

We can try to reform healthcare, but the fact is if we don't have a healthy food source, we are only treating the symptoms and not the problems.

Everything is connected to everything else. Everything must go somewhere. Nature knows best. There is no such thing as a free lunch.

Trees are poems the earth writes upon the sky, We fell them down and turn them into paper, That we may record our emptiness.

In planetary terms, we're all downstream.

Eaters must understand that eating takes place inescapably in the world, that it is inescapably an agricultural act, and that how we eat determines, to a considerable extent, how the world is used.

We are but the veriest, sorriest slaves of our stomach. Reach not after morality and righteousness, my friends; watch vigilantly your stomach, and diet it with care and judgment.

If you want to be in the best shape, diet is super important. You can exercise all you want, but if you're not eating the right foods, it's not going to equal out. You're not going to get the results you want.

Land is not merely soil, it is a fountain of energy flowing through a circuit of soils, plants and animals.

The soil is the great connector of lives, the source and destination of all. It is the healer and restorer and resurrector, by which disease passes into health, age into youth, death into life. Without proper care for it we can have no community, because without proper care for it we can have no life.