![]() My favorite chapter, far and away, is the one about the tulip. all these plants, which i’d always regarded as the objects of my desire, were also, i realized, subjects, acting on me, getting me to do things for them they couldn’t do for themselves.” “the flowers and spuds that manage to do this most effectively are the ones that get to be fruitful and multiply.” upon realizing this, he says, “the garden suddenly appeared before me in a whole new light, the manifold delights it offered to the eye and nose and tongue no longer quite so innocent or passive. how do they best do it? pollan says, it’s by playing on the desires of animals. pollan postulates that each of these species exists to the spread its’ genes. “botany of desire” has 4 chapters, each telling the story of a “domesticated species” - the apple, tulip, cannabis and potato. then i found myself about to fly home from new york without any other book for the plane… ![]() thoroughly-researched and well-reasoned, but no fun. ![]() i almost always agree completely with him. the truth is that pollan’s articles usually strike me as a little bit whiny. i dutifully read pollan’s articles in the new york times magazine, but when it came to reading an entire book, there were just too many other things i’d rather be doing. ![]()
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