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\u201cA lawn is nature under totalitarian rule.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

~Michael Pollan<\/strong>, American author, journalist & educator<\/p>\n

\u201cGardening Means War\u201d (19 June 1988) The New York Times Magazine<\/em>, New York: The New York Times,, Inc. [page number not shown]; online via MichaelPollan.com, www.michaelpollan.com<\/a><\/p>\n[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_tta_section][vc_tta_section i_icon_fontawesome=”fa fa-plus-circle” add_icon=”true” title=”Context” tab_id=”1449531588755-96303790-852e094f-cf635381-89e5f09f-0816″][vc_column_text css_animation=”none”]\n

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“Domination, in suburban or rural terms, means lawn, a demilitarized zone patrolled weekly with a rotary blade. The lawn holds great appeal; it looks sort of natural \u2013 it\u2019s green, it grows. But, in fact, it represents a subjugation of the forest as utter as a parking lot. Every species is forcibly excluded from the landscape but one, and this is forbidden to grow longer than the owner\u2019s little finger. A lawn is nature under totalitarian rule<\/span>.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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Source link<\/em><\/strong><\/span>: \u201cGardening Means War\u201d (19 June 1988) The New York Times Magazine<\/em>; online via MichaelPollan.com: https:\/\/michaelpollan.com\/articles-archive\/gardening-means-war\/<\/a><\/p>\n[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_tta_section][\/vc_tta_tabs][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”1\/2″][vc_tta_tabs style=”modern” shape=”square” active_section=”1″][vc_tta_section i_icon_fontawesome=”fa fa-book” add_icon=”true” title=”Citation” tab_id=”1453315829087-ce67c619-0fbc5381-89e5f09f-0816″][vc_column_text css_animation=”none”]\n

\u201cDreams of innocence are just that; they usually depend on a denial of reality that can be its own form of hubris.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

~Michael Pollan<\/strong>, American author, journalist & educator<\/p>\n

The Omnivore\u2019s Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals <\/em>(2006) New York: Penguin Press, 2006, p. 362<\/p>\n[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_tta_section][vc_tta_section i_icon_fontawesome=”fa fa-plus-circle” add_icon=”true” title=”Context” tab_id=”1453315829475-7c82a017-1e625381-89e5f09f-0816″][vc_column_text css_animation=”none”]\n

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\u201cI have to say there is a part of me that envies the moral clarity of the vegetarian, the blamelessness of the tofu eater. Yet part of me pities him, too. Dreams of innocence are just that; they usually depend on a denial of reality that can be its own form of hubris.<\/span>\u201d (p. 362)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_tta_section][vc_tta_section i_icon_fontawesome=”fa fa-search” add_icon=”true” title=”Source ISBN” tab_id=”1453315829682-63e8fade-cf4c5381-89e5f09f-0816″][vc_column_text css_animation=”none”]\n

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Source<\/strong><\/em><\/span>: Editor\u2019s copy \u2013 The Omnivore\u2019s Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals<\/em> (2006) International Standard Book Number (ISBN) 1-59420-082-3<\/p>\n[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_tta_section][\/vc_tta_tabs][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row css=”.vc_custom_1453316221301{margin-top: 0px !important;border-top-width: 0px !important;padding-top: 0px !important;}”][vc_column width=”1\/2″][vc_tta_tabs style=”modern” shape=”square” active_section=”1″][vc_tta_section i_icon_fontawesome=”fa fa-book” add_icon=”true” title=”Citation” tab_id=”1453315828001-b5e2e52e-ea1e5381-89e5f09f-0816″][vc_column_text css_animation=”none”]\n

\u201cEat food. Not too much. Mostly plants.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

~Michael Pollan<\/strong>, American author, journalist & educator<\/p>\n

Summarizing nutrition advice, in \u201cUnhappy Meals\u201d (28 January 2007) The New York Times Magazine<\/em>; New York: The New York Times Co., [vol., issue, page number not shown in digital ed.] online via The New York Times archives [subscription service] www.nytimes.com<\/a><\/p>\n[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_tta_section][vc_tta_section i_icon_fontawesome=”fa fa-plus-circle” add_icon=”true” title=”Context” tab_id=”1453315828385-86abfac4-79bf5381-89e5f09f-0816″][vc_column_text css_animation=”none”]\n

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\u201cEat food. Not too much. Mostly plants.<\/span><\/p>\n

That, more or less, is the short answer to the supposedly incredibly complicated and confusing question of what we humans should eat in order to be maximally healthy.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_tta_section][vc_tta_section i_icon_fontawesome=”fa fa-search” add_icon=”true” title=”Source Link” tab_id=”1453315828572-dac97b48-68e05381-89e5f09f-0816″][vc_column_text css_animation=”none”]\n

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Source link<\/em><\/strong><\/span>: \u201cUnhappy Meals\u201d (28 January 2007) The New York Times Magazine<\/em>; online via The New York Times [subscription service]: https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2007\/01\/28\/magazine\/28nutritionism.t.html<\/a><\/p>\n[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_tta_section][\/vc_tta_tabs][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”1\/2″][vc_tta_tabs style=”modern” shape=”square” active_section=”1″][vc_tta_section i_icon_fontawesome=”fa fa-book” add_icon=”true” title=”Citation” tab_id=”1449531591105-7edf5f39-feaa094f-cf635381-89e5f09f-0816″][vc_column_text css_animation=”none”]\n

\u201cIdeologies are ways of organizing large swaths of life and experience under a set of shared but unexamined assumptions. This quality makes an ideology particularly hard to see, at least while it\u2019s exerting its hold on your culture. A reigning ideology is a little like the weather: all pervasive and virtually inescapable.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

~Michael Pollan<\/strong>, American author, journalist & educator<\/p>\n

\u201cUnhappy Meals\u201d (28 January 2007) The New York Times Magazine<\/em>; New York: The New York Times Co., [vol., issue, page number not shown in digital ed.] online via The New York Times archives [subscription service] www.nytimes.com<\/a><\/p>\n[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_tta_section][vc_tta_section i_icon_fontawesome=”fa fa-plus-circle” add_icon=”true” title=”Context” tab_id=”1449531591631-43861bc7-da28094f-cf635381-89e5f09f-0816″][vc_column_text css_animation=”none”]\n

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\u201cThe first thing to understand about nutritionism \u2013 I first encountered the term in the work of an Australian sociologist of science named Gyorgy Scrinis \u2013 is that it is not a scientific subject but an ideology. Ideologies are ways of organizing large swaths of life and experience under a set of shared but unexamined assumptions.<\/span> This quality makes an ideology particularly hard to see, at least while it\u2019s exerting its hold on your culture. A reigning ideology is a little like the weather: all pervasive and virtually inescapable. Still, we can try.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_tta_section][vc_tta_section i_icon_fontawesome=”fa fa-search” add_icon=”true” title=”Source Link” tab_id=”1449531592891-f39e055b-a66e094f-cf635381-89e5f09f-0816″][vc_column_text css_animation=”none”]\n

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Source link<\/em><\/strong><\/span>: \u201cUnhappy Meals\u201d (28 January 2007) The New York Times Magazine<\/em>; online via The New York Times [subscription service]: https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2007\/01\/28\/magazine\/28nutritionism.t.html<\/a><\/p>\n[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_tta_section][\/vc_tta_tabs][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row css=”.vc_custom_1453316221301{margin-top: 0px !important;border-top-width: 0px !important;padding-top: 0px !important;}”][vc_column width=”1\/2″][vc_tta_tabs style=”modern” shape=”square” active_section=”1″][vc_tta_section i_icon_fontawesome=”fa fa-book” add_icon=”true” title=”Citation” tab_id=”1453315828001-b5e2e52e-ea1e5381-89e5f09f-0816″][vc_column_text css_animation=”none”]\n

\u201cThe family meal is really the nursery of democracy. It\u2019s where we learn to share; it\u2019s where we learn to argue without offending. It\u2019s just too criticial to let go, as we\u2019ve been so blithely doing.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

~Michael Pollan<\/strong>, American author, journalist & educator<\/p>\n

Interview response, \u201cFire, Water, Air, Earth: Michael Pollan Gets Elemental in \u2018Cooked\u2019\u201d (21 April 2013) NPR Books, \u2018Weekend Edition Sunday\u2019 interview with Rachel Martin; audio (6:19 \u2013 cited line at approx.4:29) and transcript highlights via NPR, www.npr.og<\/a><\/p>\n[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_tta_section][vc_tta_section i_icon_fontawesome=”fa fa-plus-circle” add_icon=”true” title=”Context” tab_id=”1453315828385-86abfac4-79bf5381-89e5f09f-0816″][vc_column_text css_animation=”none”]\n

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\u201cYou can only microwave one person\u2019s entr\u00e9e at a time. And you\u2019re not sharing. And there\u2019s something magical that happens when people eat from the same pot. The family meal is really the nursery of democracy. It\u2019s where we learn to share; it\u2019s where we learn to argue without offending. It\u2019s just too critical to let go, as we\u2019ve been so blithely doing.<\/span>\u201d<\/p>\n

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Source link<\/em><\/strong><\/span>:\u00a0 \u201cFire, Water, Air, Earth: Michael Pollan Gets Elemental in \u2018Cooked\u2019\u2019 (21 April 2013) online via NPR: https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2013\/04\/21\/177501735\/fire-water-air-earth-michael-pollan-gets-elemental-in-cooked<\/a><\/p>\n[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_tta_section][\/vc_tta_tabs][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”1\/2″][vc_tta_tabs style=”modern” shape=”square” active_section=”1″][vc_tta_section i_icon_fontawesome=”fa fa-book” add_icon=”true” title=”Citation” tab_id=”1449531591105-7edf5f39-feaa094f-cf635381-89e5f09f-0816″][vc_column_text css_animation=”none”]\n

\u201cThe garden suggests there might be a place where we can meet nature half way.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

~Michael Pollan<\/strong>, American author, journalist & educator<\/p>\n

\u201cWhy Mow? The Case Against Lawns\u201d (28 May 1989) The New York Times Magazine<\/em>, New York: The New York Times Co., [vol., issue, page number not shown in digital ed.] online via MichaelPollan.com, www.michaelpollan.com<\/a><\/p>\n[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_tta_section][vc_tta_section i_icon_fontawesome=”fa fa-plus-circle” add_icon=”true” title=”Context” tab_id=”1449531591631-43861bc7-da28094f-cf635381-89e5f09f-0816″][vc_column_text css_animation=”none”]\n

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\u201cGardens also teach the necessary if un-American lesson that nature and culture can be compromised, that there might be some middle ground between the lawn and the forest \u2013 between those who would complete the conquest of the planet in the name of progress, and those who believe it\u2019s time we abdicated our rule and left the earth in the care of its more innocent species. The garden suggests there might be a place where we can meet nature halfway.<\/span>\u201d (pp. 76-77)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Source note<\/em><\/strong>: The essay \u201cWhy Mow?\u201d is also included as chapter three of Pollan\u2019s 1991 text, Second Nature: A Gardener\u2019s Education. <\/em>See “Source Link” tab for a link to the text via Open Library.
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Source link <\/em><\/strong>[Featured source]<\/span>: \u201cWhy Mow? The Case Against Lawns\u201d (28 May 1989) The New York Times Magazine<\/em>; online via MichaelPollan.com: https:\/\/michaelpollan.com\/articles-archive\/why-mow-the-case-against-lawns\/<\/a><\/p>\n

Source link <\/em><\/strong>[Reprint – 1991 text]<\/span>: Library \u2013 Second Nature: A Gardener\u2019s Education<\/em> (1991) online via Open Library [free subscription service]: https:\/\/archive.org\/stream\/secondnaturegard00pollrich#page\/76\/mode\/1up\/search\/garden+suggests<\/a><\/p>\n[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_tta_section][\/vc_tta_tabs][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]\n

Resources<\/h4>\n[\/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css_animation=”none” el_class=”Wrapper-Author-Resources”]Learn more about Michael Pollan <\/strong><\/span>| Here are a few good places to start –<\/p>\n