The Botany Of Desire

The Botany of Desire: A Plant's-Eye View of the World is a 2001 nonfiction book by journalist Michael Pollan. The book was used as the basis for The Botany of Desire, a two-hour program broadcast by PBS. This work explores the nature of domesticated plants from the dual perspective of humans and the plants themselves. Pollan presents case studies that mirror four types of human desires that are reflected in the way that we selectively grow, breed, and genetically engineer our plants. The apple reflects the desire of sweetness, the tulip beauty, marijuana intoxication, and the potato control. Pollan narrates his own experience with each of the plants, which he then intertwines with an exploration into their social history. Each section presents an element of human domestication, or the "human bumblebee" as Pollan calls us. The stories range from the true story of Johnny Appleseed to Pollan's first-hand research with sophisticated marijuana hybrids in Amsterdam to the paradigm-shifting possibilities of genetically engineered potatoes.

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r3Xh4X (2010-02-10)

This show is awesome. 5/5

redox1 (2010-08-05)

This is a very good show, though it should be pointed out that the irish potato famine was not a collapse of potato production (which only dropped around 10%), rather that most of the crop was shipped out under armed guard by the english. It was a deliberate genocide like the homolodor in the ukraine.

Knight_Auron2 (2014-06-15)

Its 100% clean thank you very much.