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"Tengo had a gift for such work. He was a born technician, possessing both the intense concentration of a bird sailing through the air in search of prey and the patience of a donkey hauling water, playing always by the rules of the game."
"If a craftsman wants to do good work, he must first sharpen his tools."
"You only need enough experience to master the art."
"The infinitude of Jiu Jitsu allows for the infinitude of the types of practitioners. There exists a game for each and every one of us which is specifically possible within the confines of our particular skill set."
"You can read in the space of a coffin, and you can write in the space of a toolshed meant for mowers and spades."
"You are working up to Mr. Fantastic Fiction levels of Zombie Expert, which is like playing Guitar Hero on some level that actually melts the guitar controller, burning your fingers with searing hot plastic till you scream in pain. Only with words. And zombies."
Explore more quotes by Michael Pollan
"Every major food company now has an organic division. There's more capital going into organic agriculture than ever before."
"Researchers have found that people (and animals) presented with large portions will eat up to 30 percent more than they could otherwise. Human appetite, it turns out, is surprisingly elastic, which makes excellent evolutionary sense: It behooved our hunter gatherer ancestors to feast whenever the opportunity presented itself, allowing them to build up reserves of fat against future famine."
"Reversing the historical trajectory of human eating, for this meal the forest would be feeding us again."
"My native tense is future conditional, a low simmer of unspecified worry being the usual condition."
"Unlike any other form of thought, daydreaming is its own reward."
"Tree planting is always a utopian enterprise, it seems to me, a wager on a future the planter doesn't necessarily expect to witness."
"Leave something on your plate... 'Better to go to waste than to waist."
"Curiously, the one bodily fluid of other people that doesn't disgust us is the one produced by the human alone: tears. Consider the sole type of used tissue you'd be willing to share."
"Before I started writing about food, my focus was really on the human relationship to plants. Not only do plants nourish us bodily - they nourish us psychologically."
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