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There's been progress toward seeing that nature and culture are not opposing terms, and that wilderness is not the only kind of landscape for environmentalists to concern themselves with.

~Michael Pollan

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I have had the good fortune to see how my articles have directly benefited some farmers and helped build markets for their products in a way that preserves land from development. That makes me a hopeless optimist.

~Michael Pollan

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Yes, I very much like to have a personal stake in what I'm writing about.

~Michael Pollan

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Fairness forces you - even when you're writing a piece highly critical of, say, genetically modified food, as I have done - to make sure you represent the other side as extensively and as accurately as you possibly can.

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Anyway, in my writing I've always been interested in finding places to stand, and I've found it very useful to have a direct experience of what I'm writing about.

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My writing is remarkably non-confessional; you actually learn very little about me.

~Michael Pollan

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Plus, I love comic writing. Nothing satisfies me more than finding a funny way to phrase something.

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The larger meaning here is that mainstream journalists simply cannot talk about things that the two parties agree on; this is the black hole of American politics.

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The things journalists should pay attention to are the issues the political leadership agrees on, rather than to their supposed antagonisms.

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The Times has much less power than you think. I believe we attribute power to the media generally that it simply doesn't have. It's very convenient to blame the media, the same way we blame television for everything that's going wrong in society.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Educator

Born: Unknown

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