The Botany of Desire: A Plant's-Eye View of the World
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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 tulop, 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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Michael Pollan. (2006). The Botany of Desire: A Plant's-Eye View of the World. Unabridged Audio Evolution, LLC.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation (style guide)Michael Pollan. 2006. The Botany of Desire: A Plant's-Eye View of the World. Audio Evolution, LLC.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities Citation (style guide)Michael Pollan, The Botany of Desire: A Plant's-Eye View of the World. Audio Evolution, LLC, 2006.
MLA Citation (style guide)Michael Pollan. The Botany of Desire: A Plant's-Eye View of the World. Unabridged Audio Evolution, LLC, 2006.
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