Weaving fascinating anecdote and accessible science, Pollan takes the reader on an absorbing journey through the landscape of botany and desire. All four plants are integral to our everyday lives and Pollan demonstrates how each has thrived by satisfying one of humankind's most basic desires. Or are they? What if those potatoes and tulips have evolved to gratify certain human desires so that humans will help them multiply? What if, in other words, these plants are using us just as we use them? In blending history, memoir and superb science writing, Pollan tells the story of four domesticated species – the apple, the tulip, marijuana and the potato. Two simple examples of how humans act on nature to get what we want. A gardener plants tulip bulbs in the autumn and in the spring has a riotous patch of colour to admire. 256) and index.A farmer cultivates genetically modified potatoes so that a customer at McDonald's half a world away can enjoy a long, golden french fry. And just as we've benefited from these plants, the plants, in the grand co-evolutionary scheme that Pollan evokes, have done remarkably well by us."-BOOK JACKET. The apple gratifies our taste for sweetness the tulip attracts us with its beauty marijuana offers intoxication and the genetically modified potato gives us a sense of control over nature. All four species are deeply woven into the fabric of our everyday lives, and Pollan illustrates how each has evolved a survival strategy based on satisfying one of humankind's most basic desires. "In this narrative that blends history, memoir, and the best science writing, Pollan tells the story of four domesticated species - the apple, the tulip, marijuana, and the potato - from the point of view of the plants.
Or are they? What if those potatoes and tulips have evolved to gratify certain human desires so that humans will help them multiply? What if, in other words, these plants are using us just as we use them?".
Two straightforward examples of how humans act on nature to get what we want. A gardener plants tulip bulbs in the fall and, come spring, has a riotous patch of color to admire. "An Idaho farmer cultivates Russet Burbank potatoes so that a customer at a McDonald's half a world away can enjoy a long, golden french fry. The botany of desire : a plant's eye view of the world / Michael Pollan Book Bib ID Through the stories of four familiar plant speciesapples, tulips, marijuana, and potatoeshe demolishes the erroneous.
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