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May 28, 2002 · In The Botany of Desire, Michael Pollan ingeniously demonstrates how people and domesticated plants have formed a similarly reciprocal relationship. He masterfully links four fundamental human desires—sweetness, beauty, intoxication, and control—with the plants that satisfy them: the apple, the tulip, marijuana, and the potato.
A Plant’s-Eye View of the World. Every schoolchild learns about the mutually beneficial dance of honeybees and flowers: The bee collects nectar and pollen to make honey and, in the process, spreads the flowers’ genes far and wide.
May 28, 2002 · The Botany of Desire: A Plant's-Eye View of the World. Paperback – May 28, 2002. Every schoolchild learns about the mutually beneficial dance of honeybees and flowers: The bee collects nectar and pollen to make honey and, in the process, spreads the flowers’ genes far and wide.
- Michael Pollan
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Jan 1, 2002 · Michael Pollan concentrates on four domesticated plants and their uses for humans. The philosophy, history, and huge impact the plants had on human survival are discussed with a focus on the uses which satisfied mankind's four basic needs: sweetness, beauty, intoxication, and control.
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The Botany of Desire: A Plant's-Eye View of the World is a 2001 nonfiction book by journalist Michael Pollan. Pollan presents case studies mirroring four types of human desires that are reflected in the way that we selectively grow, breed, and genetically engineer plants.
- Michael Pollan
- 2001
The Botany of Desire: A Plant's-Eye View of the World. Audio CD – Unabridged, Nov. 5 2013. The book that helped make Michael Pollan, the New York Times bestselling author of Cooked and The Omnivore’s Dilemma, one of the most trusted food experts in America.
In telling the stories of four familiar plant species that are deeply woven into the fabric of our lives, Pollan illustrates how they evolved to satisfy humankinds’s most basic yearnings—and by...
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