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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 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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Gardening, Nature, Human-plant relationships, Nonfiction, Plants and civilization, Ethnobotany, Nature, effect of human beings on, Large type booksPeople
William Ellery Jones, Johny Appleseed, John Chapman, Forsline, Jack Goody, Anna Pavord, Carolus Clusius, Richard Dawkins (1941-), Carl Sagan (1934-1996), Charles Darwin (1809-1882), IdahoPlaces
Mount Vernon, Ohio, Mansfield, Cincinnati, Geneva, New York, Amsterdam, Manhattan, Milford, Mexico, CaliforniaShowing 2 featured editions. View all 16 editions?
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The Botany of Desire: A Plant's-Eye View of the World
May 28, 2002, Random House Trade Paperbacks, Random House
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0375760393 9780375760396
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The botany of desire: a plant's eye view of the world
2001, Random House
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [247]-256) and index.
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