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Michael Pollan Quote: “In order for the English mind to be sharpened with tea, the Chinese mind had to be clouded with opium.”

351. “In order for the English mind to be sharpened with tea, the Chinese mind had to be clouded with opium.”

— Michael Pollan

Michael Pollan Quote: “When we eat mindlessly and alone, we eat more.”

352. “When we eat mindlessly and alone, we eat more.”

— Michael Pollan

Michael Pollan Quote: “You’re better off eating the real thing in moderation than bingeing on “lite” food products packed with sugars and salt.”

353. “You’re better off eating the real thing in moderation than bingeing on “lite” food products packed with sugars and salt.”

— Michael Pollan

Michael Pollan Quote: “Human consciousness is always at risk of getting stuck, sending the mind around and around in loops of rumination; mushroom chemicals like psilocybin can nudge us out of those grooves, loosening stuck brains and making possible fresh patterns of thought.”

354. “Human consciousness is always at risk of getting stuck, sending the mind around and around in loops of rumination; mushroom chemicals like psilocybin can nudge us out of those grooves, loosening stuck brains and making possible fresh patterns of thought.”

— Michael Pollan

Michael Pollan Quote: “Weeds, as the field guides indicate, are plants particularly well adapted to man-made places. They don’t grow in forests or prairies – in “the wild.” Weeds thrive in gardens, meadows, lawns, vacant lots, railroad sidings, hard by dumpsters and in the cracks of sidewalks. They grow where we live, in other words, and hardly anywhere else.”

355. “Weeds, as the field guides indicate, are plants particularly well adapted to man-made places. They don’t grow in forests or prairies – in “the wild.” Weeds thrive in gardens, meadows, lawns, vacant lots, railroad sidings, hard by dumpsters and in the cracks of sidewalks. They grow where we live, in other words, and hardly anywhere else.”

— Michael Pollan

Michael Pollan Quote: “The gardener learns nothing when his carrots thrive, unless that success is won against a background of prior disappointment. Outright success is dumb, disaster frequently eloquent.”

356. “The gardener learns nothing when his carrots thrive, unless that success is won against a background of prior disappointment. Outright success is dumb, disaster frequently eloquent.”

— Michael Pollan

Michael Pollan Quote: “You’ve heard that song a thousand times before, but now you suddenly hear it in all its soul-piercing beauty, the sweet bottomless poignancy of the guitar line like a revelation, and for the first time you can understand, really understand, just what Jerry Garcia meant by every note, his unhurried cheerful-baleful improvisation piping something very near the meaning of life directly into your mind.”

357. “You’ve heard that song a thousand times before, but now you suddenly hear it in all its soul-piercing beauty, the sweet bottomless poignancy of the guitar line like a revelation, and for the first time you can understand, really understand, just what Jerry Garcia meant by every note, his unhurried cheerful-baleful improvisation piping something very near the meaning of life directly into your mind.”

— Michael Pollan

Michael Pollan Quote: “It is said that members of the Women’s Christian Temperance Union would relax at the end of a day spent crusading against alcohol with their cherished “women’s tonics,” preparations whose active ingredient was laudanum – opium.”

358. “It is said that members of the Women’s Christian Temperance Union would relax at the end of a day spent crusading against alcohol with their cherished “women’s tonics,” preparations whose active ingredient was laudanum – opium.”

— Michael Pollan

Michael Pollan Quote: “My confidence in telling this story gradually returned, and after a month I could write again; you can judge how well that’s going, but at least it’s going.”

359. “My confidence in telling this story gradually returned, and after a month I could write again; you can judge how well that’s going, but at least it’s going.”

— Michael Pollan

Michael Pollan Quote: “Some mycelium will actually insinuate itself into the grain of trees, taking up residence and forming a symbiotic relationship with the tree. Stamets believes the mycelium functions as a kind of immune system for its arboreal host, secreting antibacterial, antiviral, and insecticidal compounds that protect the trees from diseases and pests, in exchange for nourishment and habitat.”

360. “Some mycelium will actually insinuate itself into the grain of trees, taking up residence and forming a symbiotic relationship with the tree. Stamets believes the mycelium functions as a kind of immune system for its arboreal host, secreting antibacterial, antiviral, and insecticidal compounds that protect the trees from diseases and pests, in exchange for nourishment and habitat.”

— Michael Pollan

Michael Pollan Quote: “It is too late in the day-there are simply too many of us now-to follow Thoreau into the woods, to look to nature to somehow cure or undo culture.”

361. “It is too late in the day-there are simply too many of us now-to follow Thoreau into the woods, to look to nature to somehow cure or undo culture.”

— Michael Pollan

Michael Pollan Quote: “This also turns out to be a pretty good summary of the drug war, which, besides doing so much to erode our liberties and fill our prisons, served to distract us from reckoning the true toll of the opiates we happened to classify as legal.”

362. “This also turns out to be a pretty good summary of the drug war, which, besides doing so much to erode our liberties and fill our prisons, served to distract us from reckoning the true toll of the opiates we happened to classify as legal.”

— Michael Pollan

Michael Pollan Quote: “This might not matter to much of anyone but a confirmed Slow Foodie, eager to save and sample endangered food traditions, except for one notable fact: Medical researchers are coming around to the startling conclusion that, in order to be healthy, people need more exposure to microbes, not less; and that one of the problems with the so-called Western diet – besides all the refined carbohydrates and fats and novel chemicals in it – is the absence from it of live-culture foods.”

363. “This might not matter to much of anyone but a confirmed Slow Foodie, eager to save and sample endangered food traditions, except for one notable fact: Medical researchers are coming around to the startling conclusion that, in order to be healthy, people need more exposure to microbes, not less; and that one of the problems with the so-called Western diet – besides all the refined carbohydrates and fats and novel chemicals in it – is the absence from it of live-culture foods.”

— Michael Pollan

Michael Pollan Quote: “Maybe the problem with “the box” is that it is singular.”

364. “Maybe the problem with “the box” is that it is singular.”

— Michael Pollan

Michael Pollan Quote: “That is the problem with you whites. You always want to know everything. We just experience it.”

365. “That is the problem with you whites. You always want to know everything. We just experience it.”

— Michael Pollan

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