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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 7759397 | In nature health is the default," he pointed out. "Most of the time pests and disease are just nature's way of telling the farmer he's doing something wrong." | Michael Pollan | ||
| a16f488 | More birds on a farm mean fewer insects, but most birds won't venture more than a couple hundred yards from the safety of cover. Like many species, their preferred habitat is the edge between forest and field. The biodiversity of the forest edge also helps control predators. As long as the weasels and coyotes have plenty of chipmunks and voles to eat, they're less likely to venture out and prey on the chickens. | Michael Pollan | ||
| 0701b3d | One of the greatest assets of a farm is the sheer ecstasy of life. | Michael Pollan | ||
| a6b88f7 | Do you see the world as a prison or a playground? | Michael Pollan | ||
| 04a96f7 | I could, like some of the meat we were cooking, relax into it, clear my mind of competing desires & give myself over to the work... This time became a kind of luxury. And that is precisely when I began to truly enjoy the work of cooking. | foodie self-care | Michael Pollan | |
| 4e5ffc8 | whenever I hear people say clean food is expensive, I tell them it's actually the cheapest food you can buy. That always gets their attention. Then I explain that with our food all of the costs are figured into the price. Society is not bearing the cost of water pollution, of antibiotic resistance, of food-borne illnesses, of crop subsidies, of subsidized oil and water--of all the hidden costs to the environment and the taxpayer that make c.. | Michael Pollan | ||
| c25580d | The adult human brain accounts for 2 percent of our body weight but consumes 18 percent of our energy, all of which must come from a carbohydrate. | Michael Pollan | ||
| 30036a1 | Is there any more feudal, soul eradiating experience than standing before the little window on a microwave oven watching the carousel slowly revolve your frozen block of dinner? Time spent this way might be easier than cooking but it is not enjoyable & surely not ennobling. It is to feel spiritually unemployed, useless to self & humanity. | food foodie homemade time | Michael Pollan | |
| 815ff32 | I hope whatever you're doing, / you're stopping now and then / and / not doing it at all.")" | Michael Pollan | ||
| acadd1a | comes with such power. | R.A. Salvatore | ||
| e00fa6c | We had had a few beers, and while we hadn't touched our tiny stash of azzies, we had smoked a little pot. Stamets dilated on the idea of psilocybin as a chemical messenger sent from Earth, and how we had been elected, by virtue of the gift of consciousness and language, to hear its call and act before it's too late. "Plants and mushrooms have intelligence, and they want us to take care of the environment, and so they communicate that to us .. | Michael Pollan | ||
| 10d31af | The usual antonym for the word "spiritual" is "material." That at least is what I believed when I began this inquiry--that the whole issue with spirituality turned on a question of metaphysics. Now I'm inclined to think a much better and certainly more useful antonym for "spiritual" might be "egotistical." | Michael Pollan | ||
| 1971718 | When the ego dissolves, so does a bounded conception not only of our self but of our self-interest. What emerges in its place is invariably a broader, more openhearted and altruistic--that is, more spiritual--idea of what matters in life. One in which a new sense of connection, or love, however defined, seems to figure prominently. | Michael Pollan | ||
| 7faf2bf | The second or third time I watched Stamets show a video of a Cordyceps doing its diabolical thing to an ant--commandeering its body, making it do its bidding, and then exploding a mushroom from its brain in order to disseminate its genes--it occurred to me that Stamets and that poor ant had rather a lot in common. Fungi haven't killed him, it's true, and he probably knows enough about their wiles to head off that fate. But it's also true th.. | brain cordyceps fungus science stamets | Michael Pollan | |
| feaed5e | Erowid, | Michael Pollan | ||
| 33d10c1 | Eating puts us in touch with all that we share with the other animals, and all that sets us apart. It defines us. | Michael Pollan | ||
| 028c39d | Eat Your View! | Michael Pollan | ||
| 7c24d85 | So perhaps Leary's real sin was to have the courage of his convictions--his and everyone else's in the psychedelic research community. It's often said that a political scandal is when someone in power inadvertently speaks the truth. Leary was all too often willing to say out loud to anyone in earshot what everyone else believed but knew better than to speak or write candidly. It was one thing to use these drugs to treat the ill and maladjus.. | Michael Pollan | ||
| f5ecfb5 | What is striking about this whole line of clinical research is the premise that it is not the pharmacological effect of the drug itself but the kind of mental experience it occasions--involving the temporary dissolution of one's ego--that may be the key to changing one's mind. | Michael Pollan | ||
| fe89e35 | Psychedelics are for those of us who aren't so innately gifted. | Michael Pollan | ||
| 7dd7789 | There is so much authority that comes out of the primary mystical experience that it can be threatening to existing hierarchical structures. | Michael Pollan | ||
| 7129f49 | In this and so many other ways, it seems, the Hopkins psilocybin experience is the artifact not only of this powerful molecule but also of the preparation and expectations of the volunteer, the skills and worldviews of the sitters, Bill Richards's flight instructions, the decor of the room, the inward focus encouraged by the eyeshades and the music (and the music itself, much of which to my ears sounds notably religious), and, though they m.. | Michael Pollan | ||
| e2e3dd5 | Charnay's journey at Hopkins solidified her commitment to herbal medicine (she now works for a supplement maker in Northern California); it also confirmed her in a decision to divorce her husband. | Michael Pollan | ||
| e46105f | If you'd cry me a river, you can baptize me in. | Alkaline Trio | ||
| a5add81 | You were the first real choice I would make, but we all make mistakes. | Alkaline Trio | ||
| 39b6766 | He writes in his book that mycelia--the vast, cobwebby whitish net of single-celled filaments, called hyphae, with which fungi weave their way through the soil--are intelligent, forming "a sentient membrane" and "the neurological network of nature." | Michael Pollan | ||
| ea42de5 | Savannah gave little thought to her habit during the journey, except toward the end when she pictured herself as a smoking gargoyle. "You know how gargoyles look, crouched down with their shoulders hunched? That's how I felt and saw myself, a little golem creature smoking, pulling in the smoke and not letting it out, until my chest hurts and I'm choking. It was powerful and disgusting. I can still see it now, that hideous coughing gargoyle,.. | Michael Pollan | ||
| 96faa46 | They can print more money," he liked to say, "and they can print new stocks and bonds, but they can't print more land." | Michael Pollan | ||
| 84be437 | A single unmowed lawn ruins the whole effect, announcing to the world that all is not well here in utopia. | Michael Pollan | ||
| a9dbab0 | we need, and now more than ever, to learn how to use nature without damaging it. | Michael Pollan | ||
| 581c81f | I bit my tongue and I let it bleed. I've never been big on originality. | Alkaline Trio | ||
| 1a6dba5 | Those others were like methadone, I took to get me through the day. | Alkaline Trio | ||
| 994ed09 | Es mejor, pienso, intentar coger las estrellas que no hacerlo porque sabes que no puedes alcanzarlas. Al menos quien trepa disfrutara de una magnifica vista, y quizas incluso se haga con una manzana colgada de la rama en recompensa por sus esfuerzos. | esfuerzo estrellas metas recompensa | R.A. Salvatore | |
| 1f6e721 | As we uncover the mysteries of the body, so too must we unravel the harmonies of the soul. | R.A. Salvatore | ||
| 1a2b778 | We make the dragons as we make the gods, because we need them, because, somewhere deep in our hearts, we recognize that a world without them is a world not worth living in. | R.A. Salvatore | ||
| 66c79a5 | was still working in the finance field for a high-tech company. The | R.A. Salvatore | ||
| 18b59f7 | verybody has an imagination. There's the construction worker who can close his eyes and imagine a Hawaiian vacation. There's the corporate executive with visions of that next big promotion. There's the stay-at-home mother and her perfectly built "cabana boy" who will sweep her off her feet. For a small group of us, we've been fortunate enough to be able to use our imaginations to make a living." | R.A. Salvatore | ||
| 365b975 | A leering succubus, vile temptress of the Abyss, stared back at him. | R.A. Salvatore | ||
| 77dbb4c | A hundred goblins and orcs looked up from their herding and fishing duties to mark the drow soldier's swift passage. Knowing their restrictions as slaves, they took care not to look Dinin in the eye. | R.A. Salvatore | ||
| ca09211 | Such a typical misunderstanding. He is broken. Something within him is damaged. You can no more expect Drizzt to clearly unwind his twisting thoughts than you could expect a man with shattered legs to run. Just because you cannot see the injury does not mean that it isn't there. Nor is it one that can be cured by force of will, any more than simple determination could mend shattered bones." Jarlaxle" | R.A. Salvatore | ||
| f8d37ef | Pwent fell back and began to choke on the command. By his estimation, a dwarf king ordering a subject to go take a bath was roughly the equivalent of a human king telling his knights to go out and kill babies. | R.A. Salvatore | ||
| 8317767 | I came to hear the screams: the screams of protest against murderous treachery; the screams of rage from the leaders of drow society, the high priestesses of the Spider Queen, echoing down the paths of my mind, ever to hold a place within my mind. The screams of dying children. --Drizzt Do'Urden | R.A. Salvatore | ||
| cc89c9f | Conscience does not always adhere to rational judgment. Guilt is always a self-imposed burden, but is not always rightly imposed. | R.A. Salvatore | ||
| 6643db0 | And doubts regarding how high the price might prove. But this is our way. This is our creed. This is the mantra of the Companions of the Hall. It can be no other way. And since we knew our course to be true, doubts could not equal regret. No matter the price. --Drizzt Do'Urden | R.A. Salvatore |