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The Botany of Desire

Michael Pollan · 2001

Pollan asked: what if we thought about the relationship between humans and plants from the plant's perspective? His four case studies (apples/sweetness, tulips/beauty, cannabis/intoxication, potatoes/control) reveal coevolution as a two-way process and permanently changed how readers think about nature, agriculture, and desire.

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