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76 Motivational Quotes By Michael Pollan That Will Change Your Life Forever

Famous As: Author & Journalist Best Known for His Food-Related Books ‘The Botany of Desire’ & ‘The Omnivore's Dilemma’
Born On: February 6, 1955
Born In: Long Island, New York, United States
Age: 69 Years
Michael Pollan is a journalism professor at UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism, author, and activist. Pollan studied English at Bennington College and then went on to acquire a post graduate degree from Columbia University, before embarking on a career as a writer, essayist and journalism teacher. His most renowned book is ‘The Omnivore’s Dilemma’, published in 2006, in which he deals with the subject of how human beings go about the process of acquiring their food. Some of his other well-known books include ‘Cooked: A Natural History of Transformation’, ‘A Place of My Own’, ‘In Defense of Food’, ‘Food Rules: An Eater’s Manuel’ and ‘The Botany of Desire’ among others. On the other hand, Pollan has also been a regular contributor of essays to some of the leading publications in the world like ‘TIME’, ‘The New Yorker’ and ‘New York Times’. Pollan has also been awarded the ‘Washburn Award’ by the Boston Museum of Science for his efforts towards making science more popular among the masses. Pollan has also delivered many speeches and given several interviews on different subjects. We have excerpted his quotes from his speeches, writings, books, essays, interviews and lectures. Presenting a collection of Michael Pollan’s quotations on omnivore, lifestyle, fruits, plants, happiness, inspiration, community, sharing, challenge, ignorance, life, love, obesity, malnutrition and diabetes.
You are what what you eat eats.

You are what what you eat eats.

Michael Pollan
Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants.

Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants.

Michael Pollan
Don't eat anything your great-grandmother wouldn't recognize as food.

Don't eat anything your great-grandmother wouldn't recognize as food.

Michael Pollan
Don't eat anything incapable of rotting.

Don't eat anything incapable of rotting.

Michael Pollan
Perhaps as the sway of tradition in our eating decisions weakens, habits we once took for granted are thrown up in the air, where they're more easily buffeted by a strong idea or a breeze of fashion.

Perhaps as the sway of tradition in our eating decisions weakens, habits we once took for granted are thrown up in the air, where they're more easily buffeted by a strong idea or a breeze of fashion.

Michael Pollan
The shared meal elevates eating from a mechanical process of fueling the body to a ritual of family and community, from the mere animal biology to an act of culture.

The shared meal elevates eating from a mechanical process of fueling the body to a ritual of family and community, from the mere animal biology to an act of culture.

Michael Pollan
So that's us: processed corn, walking.

So that's us: processed corn, walking.

Michael Pollan
Were the walls of our meat industry to become transparent, literally or even figuratively, we would not long continue to raise, kill, and eat animals the way we do.

Were the walls of our meat industry to become transparent, literally or even figuratively, we would not long continue to raise, kill, and eat animals the way we do.

Michael Pollan
The garden suggests there might be a place where we can meet nature halfway.

The garden suggests there might be a place where we can meet nature halfway.

Michael Pollan
When chickens get to live like chickens, they'll taste like chickens, too.

When chickens get to live like chickens, they'll taste like chickens, too.

Michael Pollan
But that's the challenge -- to change the system more than it changes you.

But that's the challenge -- to change the system more than it changes you.

Michael Pollan
Shake the hand that feeds you.

Shake the hand that feeds you.

Michael Pollan
If it came from a plant, eat it; if it was made in a plant, don't.

If it came from a plant, eat it; if it was made in a plant, don't.

Michael Pollan
... the way we eat represents our most profound engagement with the natural world. Daily, our eating turns nature into culture, transforming the body of the world into our bodies and minds.

... the way we eat represents our most profound engagement with the natural world. Daily, our eating turns nature into culture, transforming the body of the world into our bodies and minds.

Michael Pollan
What an extraordinary achievement for a civilization: to have developed the one diet that reliably makes its people sick!

What an extraordinary achievement for a civilization: to have developed the one diet that reliably makes its people sick!

Michael Pollan
The human animal is adapted to, and apparently can thrive on, an extraordinary range of different diets, but the Western diet, however you define it, does not seem to be one of them.

The human animal is adapted to, and apparently can thrive on, an extraordinary range of different diets, but the Western diet, however you define it, does not seem to be one of them.

Michael Pollan
This, for many people, is what's most offensive about hunting—to some, disgusting: that it encourages, or allows, us not only to kill but to take a certain pleasure in killing

This, for many people, is what's most offensive about hunting—to some, disgusting: that it encourages, or allows, us not only to kill but to take a certain pleasure in killing

Michael Pollan
For is there any practice less selfish, any labor less alienated, any time less wasted, than preparing something delicious and nourishing for people you love?

For is there any practice less selfish, any labor less alienated, any time less wasted, than preparing something delicious and nourishing for people you love?

Michael Pollan
Rule No.37 The whiter the bread, the sooner you’ll be dead.

Rule No.37 The whiter the bread, the sooner you’ll be dead.

Michael Pollan
Eating's not a bad way to get to know a place.

Eating's not a bad way to get to know a place.

Michael Pollan
Not everyone can afford to eat well in America, which is a literal shame, but most of us can: Americans spend less than 10 percent of their income on food, less than the citizens of any other nation.

Not everyone can afford to eat well in America, which is a literal shame, but most of us can: Americans spend less than 10 percent of their income on food, less than the citizens of any other nation.

Michael Pollan
For it is only by forgetting that we ever really drop the thread of time and approach the experience of living in the present moment, so elusive in ordinary hours.

For it is only by forgetting that we ever really drop the thread of time and approach the experience of living in the present moment, so elusive in ordinary hours.

Michael Pollan
Dreams of innocence are just that; they usually depend on a denial of reality that can be its own form of hubris.

Dreams of innocence are just that; they usually depend on a denial of reality that can be its own form of hubris.

Michael Pollan
Culture, when it comes to food, is of course a fancy word for your mom.

Culture, when it comes to food, is of course a fancy word for your mom.

Michael Pollan
Seeds have the power to preserve species, to enhance cultural as well as genetic diversity, to counter economic monopoly and to check the advance of conformity on all its many fronts.

Seeds have the power to preserve species, to enhance cultural as well as genetic diversity, to counter economic monopoly and to check the advance of conformity on all its many fronts.

Michael Pollan
[Government] regulation is an imperfect substitute for the accountability, and trust, built into a market in which food producers meet the gaze of eaters and vice versa.

[Government] regulation is an imperfect substitute for the accountability, and trust, built into a market in which food producers meet the gaze of eaters and vice versa.

Michael Pollan
Daily, our eating turns nature into culture, transforming the body of the world into our bodies and minds.

Daily, our eating turns nature into culture, transforming the body of the world into our bodies and minds.

Michael Pollan
This is part of human nature, the desire to change consciousness.

This is part of human nature, the desire to change consciousness.

Michael Pollan
We ask for too much salvation by legislation. All we need to do is empower individuals with the right philosophy and the right information to opt out en masse. (quoting Joel Salatin)

We ask for too much salvation by legislation. All we need to do is empower individuals with the right philosophy and the right information to opt out en masse. (quoting Joel Salatin)

Michael Pollan
We are not only what we eat, but how we eat, too.

We are not only what we eat, but how we eat, too.

Michael Pollan