Michael Pollan

"Taught me how to look at a landscape and see not just nature but history as well."

"I’ve learned more from Berry than anyone else about how best to engage with nature, and how to write a sturdy and pleasing English sentence."

"Sentence by sentence, some of the most stimulating thoughts anywhere."

"The most original observer American politics in the second half of the 20th century."

"In retrospect, this beautifully written and hilarious narrative made me a journalist—or at least, one who put himself in the story in order to see it fresh and build a narrative."

"Little known, but the smartest book on drugs I know of."

"A crazy and brilliant survey of western literature."

"A powerful piece of journalism disguised as a novel."