The Botany of Desire: A Plants-eye View of the WorldFocusing on the human relationship with plants, the author uses botany to explore four basic human desires--sweetness, beauty, intoxication, and control--through portraits of four plants that embody them: the apple, tulip, marijuana, and potato. |
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LibraryThing Review
Nutzerbericht - LynnB - LibraryThingVery interesting book about the interrelationship between people and plants, specifically how various human desires have meshed with -- or messed with -- the desire of plants to procreate. The author ... Vollständige Rezension lesen
LibraryThing Review
Nutzerbericht - snash - LibraryThingA very readable exploration of man's relationship to nature, particularly with our efforts to domesticate plants thereby forming a reciprocal relationship. The book includes a little philosophy, history, psychology as well as biology. Vollständige Rezension lesen