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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 60fe4d0 | You are what you eat eats. | Michael Pollan | ||
| 84cb489 | The bread was so powerfully aromatic that, had I been alone, I would have been tempted to push my face into it. | Michael Pollan | ||
| a599fc8 | Twenty thousand birds moved away from me as one, like a ground-hugging white cloud, clucking softly. | Michael Pollan | ||
| 423d15b | participants ranked their psilocybin experience as one of the most meaningful in their lives, comparable "to the birth of a first child or death of a parent." Two-thirds of the participants rated the session among the top five "most spiritually significant experiences" of their lives; one-third ranked it the most significant such experience in their lives." | Michael Pollan | ||
| c2e0435 | Queen of Night is as close to black as a flower gets, though in fact it is a dark and glossy maroonish purple. Its hue is so dark, however, that it appears to draw more light into itself than it reflects, a kind of floral black hole. In the garden, depending on the the angle of the sun, the blossoms of a Queen of Night may read as positive or negative space, as flowers or shadows of a flower. | Michael Pollan | ||
| db24ad6 | There is another word for this extremist noticing--this sense of first sight unencumbered by knowingness, by the already-been-theres and seen-thats of the adult mind--and that word, of course, is wonder. | Michael Pollan | ||
| 429bae1 | Depending on how we spend them, our food dollars can either go to support a food industry devoted to quantity and convenience and "value" or they can nourish a food chain organized around values--values like quality and health. Yes, shopping this way takes more money and effort, but as soon you begin to treat that expenditure not just as shopping but also as a kind of vote--a vote for health in the largest sense--food no longer seems like t.. | Michael Pollan | ||
| 177a42b | Quantum mechanics holds that matter may not be as innocent of mind as the materialist would have us believe. For example, a subatomic particle can exist simultaneously in multiple locations, is pure possibility, until it is measured--that is, perceived by a mind. Only then and not a moment sooner does it drop into reality as we know it: acquire fixed coordinates in time and space. The implication here is that matter might not exist as such .. | Michael Pollan | ||
| 54d808d | A collective spasm of carbophobia seized the country,... | stating-the-obvious | Michael Pollan | |
| 62d127f | As I've heard some bakers say, baking takes a lot of time, but for the most part it's not YOUR time. | Michael Pollan | ||
| d08fe5e | Umami...is the quasi-secret heart and soul of almost every braise, stew, and soup. | Michael Pollan | ||
| 3cc66f1 | Huxley suggests that the reason there aren't nearly as many mystics and visionaries walking around today, as compared to the Middle Ages, is the improvement in nutrition. Vitamin deficiencies wreak havoc on brain function and probably explain a large portion of visionary experiences in the past. | Michael Pollan | ||
| 819bf96 | The cook in the kitchen preparing a meal from plants and animals at the end of this shortest of food chains has a great many things to worry about, but "health" is simply not one of them, because it is given." | Michael Pollan | ||
| 353f3c0 | Schwartz said that several of the early computer engineers relied on LSD in designing circuit chips, especially in the years before they could be designed on computers. "You had to be able to visualize a staggering complexity in three dimensions, hold it all in your head. They found that LSD could help." | Michael Pollan | ||
| 78504e6 | Don't eat anything your great grandmother wouldn't recognize as food. "When you pick up that box of portable yogurt tubes, or eat something with 15 ingredients you can't pronounce, ask yourself, "What are those things doing there?" Pollan says. Don't eat anything with more than five ingredients, or ingredients you can't pronounce. Stay out of the middle of the supermarket; shop on the perimeter of the store. Real food tends to be on the out.. | Michael Pollan | ||
| d2ff210 | Real food is alive and there for it should eventually die. | Michael Pollan | ||
| 7407e56 | I know of one Bay Area tech company today that uses psychedelics in its management training. | Michael Pollan | ||
| bbd6e3c | Leave something on your plate... 'Better to go to waste than to waist | overeating | Michael Pollan | |
| 7537293 | For me, "spiritual" is a good name for some of the powerful mental phenomena that arise when the voice of the ego is muted or silenced. If nothing else, these journeys have shown me how that psychic construct--at once so familiar and on reflection so strange--stands between us and some striking new dimensions of experience, whether of the world outside us or of the mind within." | Michael Pollan | ||
| 293d4f6 | When a livestock farmer is willing to "practice complexity"--to choreograph the symbiosis of several different animals, each of which has been allowed to behave and eat as it evolved to--he will find he has little need for machinery, fertilizer, and, most strikingly, chemicals. He finds he has no sanitation problem or any of the diseases that result from raising a single animal in a crowded monoculture and then feeding it things it wasn't d.. | organic-farming sustainability | Michael Pollan | |
| 110c748 | I wondered if this wasn't a case of making the ideal an enemy of the good, but Salatin was convinced that industrial organic was finally a contradiction in terms. I decided I had to find out if he was right. | Michael Pollan | ||
| effd2ac | The monks used to say that he was more drawn to those who were more sinful, and the greater the sinner the more he loved him. | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | ||
| cffa40d | I might actually have faced crucifixion if it had been suddenly necessary; and yet I am incapable of living in the same room with any one for two days together, as I know by experience. | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | ||
| 5f05cb6 | Christ is with you. Do not abandon Him and He will not abandon you. You will see great sorrow, and in that sorrow you will be happy. This is my last message to you: in sorrow seek happiness. Work, work unceasingly. | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | ||
| e4fb9ae | What answer had your lecturer in Moscow to make to the question why he was forging notes? 'Everybody is getting rich one way or another, so I want to make haste to get rich too.' I don't remember the exact words, but the upshot was that he wants money for nothing, without waiting or working! We've grown used to having everything ready-made, to walking on crutches, to having our food chewed for us. Then the great hour struck, and every man s.. | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | ||
| be34cf3 | I have a longing for life, and I go on living in spite of logic. Though I may not believe in the order of the universe, yet I love the sticky little leaves as they open in spring. | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | ||
| e61c10d | For any one to love a man, he must be hidden, for as soon as he shows his face, love is gone. | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | ||
| 27b15c4 | Trifles, trifles are what matter! Why, it's just such trifles that always ruin everything... . | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | ||
| a68dea1 | Something new and unexpected, something hitherto unknown and undreamt of, had taken place in him. He did not so much understand with his mind as feel instinctively with the full force of his emotions that he could never again communicate with these people in a great gush of feeling, as he had just now, or in any way whatever. | estrangement | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | |
| f73479f | It's true that I never wanted to grow up. But how important was it really -- to have decided to be human? | recovery | Rachel Klein | |
| 95b55ed | Some days I wonder how I'll get through a whole lifetime of thinking. A life that's just words, words, words, shuffling around in my head. Was I born that way? | words | Rachel Klein | |
| afda20d | He was acting like the man he wanted to be, in hopes that he could become him. He would keep acting until he couldn't stand it anymore, and then he would be the man he was. | Maile Meloy | ||
| 99d958d | All the while, Everett felt both the threat of disorder and the steady, thrumming promise of having everything he wanted, all at once. | Maile Meloy | ||
| 94a4f73 | I swear, gentlemen, that to be too conscious is an illness -- a real thorough-going illness. For man's everyday needs, it would have been quite enough to have the ordinary human consciousness, that is, half or a quarter of the amount which falls to the lot of a cultivated man of our unhappy nineteenth century. | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | ||
| 439bbfa | Just a glass of beer, a piece of dry bread--and in one moment the brain is stronger, the mind is clearer and the will is firm! Phew, how utterly petty it all is! | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | ||
| dc23d3a | Everyone will tell you that genealogy serves two purposes: self-knowledge and social status, some sort of pedigree divined from names, locations, and achievements of eminence. However, there is nothing quite like an anomaly to suck attention away from the droning census records. A suicide hinted at emotion and thought. A closet door was flung open and daylight flooded a skeleton. | Ellen Meloy | ||
| 5f2fbf0 | Write something about me then,' he said when I came back. He grinned. 'Go on! Now! I bet you can!' 'I don't do portraits, Choe.' The lies liberated from this statement skittered off into infinity like images between two mirrors. | M. John Harrison | ||
| 4d07bc0 | When I was little, she thought, I wanted nothing except to stop travelling. I wanted time for each new thing, each new feeling, to be held properly in suspension until it could be joined by the next. Given the chance I could easily hold all those beautiful things together. I could be like a box in which they would be held new forever. Instead, everything aged and changed. People too. | stasis | M. John Harrison | |
| e681170 | It's 2444. We're all someone. | M. John Harrison | ||
| 86cee85 | Historically, dust jackets are a new concern for authors; you don't see them much before the 1920s. And is a strange name for this contrivance, as if books had anything to fear from dust. If you store a book properly, standing up, then the jacket doesn't cover the one part of the book that is actually exposed to dust, which is the top of the pages. So a dust jacket is no such thing at all; it is really a sort of advertising wrapper, like .. | dust-jacket | Paul Collins | |
| 600bc69 | Leatherbound books are an expensive form of wallpaper, and yet every English nobleman's home seems to have had them. Their endless sets of the works of Cooper and Scott and Goethe, in finely tanned bindings with marbled endpapers, all end up with this sort of dealer sooner or later. I look through a set of Cooper and, without surprise, find uncut pages: these books were never actually read. | Paul Collins | ||
| d8020ae | to be ultra is to go beyond. is to attack the scepter in the name of the throne, and the miter in the name of the alter; it is to mistreat the thing you support; it is to kick in the traces; is is to cavil at the stake for undercooking heretics; it is to reproach the idol for lack of idolatry; it is to insult through an excess of respect; it is to find to little papistry in the pope; in the king to little royalty, and too much light in the .. | Victor Hugo | ||
| 7ff529b | Ever since history has been written, ever since philosophy has meditated, misery has been the garment of the human race. | misery | Victor Hugo | |
| 0d841ae | Whether or not Yuki-san needs you, whether or not he needs Seguchi-san, or whether he needs anybody at all only he can say. And you won't know unless you ask. | Maki Murakami |