Michael Pollan Quotes

For great many species today, “fitness” means the ability to get along in a world in which humankind has become the most powerful evolutionary force.

Michael Pollan

Reversing the historical trajectory of human eating, for this meal the forest would be feeding us again.

Michael Pollan

My native tense is future conditional, a low simmer of unspecified worry being the usual condition.

Michael Pollan

He showed the words “chocolate cake” to a group of Americans and recorded their word associations. “Guilt” was the top response. If that strikes you as unexceptional, consider the response of French eaters to the same prompt: “celebration.

Michael Pollan