Pam > Pam's Quotes

“Before I firebomb a woodchuck burrow, I like to have a bit of theory under my belt.”
― Michael Pollan, Second Nature: A Gardener's Education

“To plant trees,” Russell Page wrote in his memoir, “is to give body and life to one’s dreams of a better world.”
― Michael Pollan, Second Nature: A Gardener's Education

“As you might expect, Gurney’s prose style leans toward the hyperbolic; the key literary influence here would appear to be Ripley’s Believe It or Not, and exclamation points sprout from the page like weeds after a rain.”
― Michael Pollan, Second Nature: A Gardener's Education

“I can also find out from the Seeds Blum catalog how to start seeds, save my own seeds next fall, and even how to go about trading them with other gardeners. For among other things, Seeds Blum functions as a kind of seed-saver’s co-op, encouraging gardeners to share the fruits of their labor”
― Michael Pollan, Second Nature: A Gardener's Education

“For anyone who sees only useless toil in strawberry jam made from homegrown fruits (when a big jar costs only three dollars at Walmart), the author’s response is beautifully succinct: “I love to eat of the soil of this place, to know that my flesh and this patch of earth are stitched together. What good is an economy that disregards love?”
― Arwen Donahue, Landings: A Crooked Creek Farm Year

“Some might call our farm a backwater, but the vast world is present here.”
― Arwen Donahue, Landings: A Crooked Creek Farm Year

“I swam by myself”
― Rabih Alameddine, The True True Story of Raja the Gullible (and His Mother): A Novel

“I wanted to be Japanese”
― Rabih Alameddine, The True True Story of Raja the Gullible (and His Mother): A Novel