Michael Pollan on foundations (the physical kind, the kind that go four feet into the ground):
"A foundation rooted this deeply can be counted on in a way that, say, some philosopher's idea of the truth cannot, no matter how 'grounded' he claims it to be. For one thing, I don't have to subscribe to its meaning in order for it to work. It doesn't mean; it just is — something hard and real and unambiguous … "
— Michael Pollan in A Place of My Own (New York: Penguin, 2d ed, 2008), p.122; italics in original.
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