The Botany of Desire: A Plant's-Eye View of the WorldRandom House Publishing Group, 28.05.2002 - 304 Seiten “Pollan shines a light on our own nature as well as on our implication in the natural world.” —The New York Times “A wry, informed pastoral.” —The New Yorker The book that helped make Michael Pollan, the New York Times bestselling author of How to Change Your Mind, Cooked and The Omnivore’s Dilemma, one of the most trusted food experts in America 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, we have also done well by them. So who is really domesticating whom? |
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... garden as though he were literally beside himself . Yet he'd be back again the next day - though , curiously , never before five . Maybe he ritualized the practice to keep it under control ; or maybe it took him the better part of the ...
... garden as though he were literally beside himself . Yet he'd be back again the next day - though , curiously , never before five . Maybe he ritualized the practice to keep it under control ; or maybe it took him the better part of the ...
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... garden has abjured in order to stay on the safe side of the law . So I make do with this bowdlerized garden , this densely planted plot of acceptable pleasures - good things to eat , beautiful things to gaze upon - fenced around by ...
... garden has abjured in order to stay on the safe side of the law . So I make do with this bowdlerized garden , this densely planted plot of acceptable pleasures - good things to eat , beautiful things to gaze upon - fenced around by ...
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... gardener , who eventually learns that every advance in his control of the garden is also an invitation to a new disorder . Wilderness might be re- ducible , acre by acre , but wildness is something else again . So the freshly hoed earth ...
... gardener , who eventually learns that every advance in his control of the garden is also an invitation to a new disorder . Wilderness might be re- ducible , acre by acre , but wildness is something else again . So the freshly hoed earth ...
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Acknowledgments | xi |
The Human Bumblebee | xiii |
Desire Sweetness Plant The Apple | 1 |
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