The Botany of Desire: A Plant's-Eye View of the World (PC)

by Michael Pollan | Science | This book has not been rated.
ISBN: 0375760393 Global Overview for this book
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Journal Entry 1 by jenny-lou-who from not specified, not specified not specified on Thursday, September 18, 2003
I just got this at the Kingston Symphony Book Fair - it looks like such an intersting book!

From the back cover: "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. 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. In telling the stories of four familiar species, Pollan illustrates how the plants have evolved to satisfy humankind's most basic yearnings. And just as we've benefited from these plants, the plants have also benefited at least as much from their association with us. So who is really domesticating whom?"

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