Deep down I suspect that many gardeners regard themselves as minor-league alchemists, transforming the dross of compost (and water and sunlight) into substances of rare value and beauty and power.
– from This Is Your Mind on Plants book by Michael Pollan
Tag: Quotes from This Is Your Mind on Plants book
Something like 90 percent of humans …
Something like 90 percent of humans ingest caffeine regularly, making it the most widely used psychoactive drug in the world, and the only one we routinely give to children (commonly in the form of soda). Few of us even think of it as a drug, much less our daily use of it as an addiction. It’s so pervasive that it’s easy to overlook the fact that to be caffeinated is not baseline consciousness but, in fact, an altered state. It just happens to be a state that virtually all of us share, rendering it invisible.
– from This Is Your Mind on Plants book by Michael Pollan
One of the greatest satisfactions of …
One of the greatest satisfactions of gardening is the independence it can confer – from the greengrocer, the florist, the pharmacist, and, for some, the drug dealer.
– from This Is Your Mind on Plants book by Michael Pollan