Ebook {Epub PDF} The Botany of Desire: A Plants-Eye View of the World by Michael Pollan

In The Botany of Desire, Michael Pollan argues that the answer lies at the heart of the intimately reciprocal relationship between people and plants. In telling the stories of four familiar plant species that are deeply woven into the fabric of our lives, Pollan illustrates how they evolved to satisfy humankinds’s most basic yearnings—and by doing so made themselves indispensable/5(K). In The Botany of Desire, Michael Pollan argues that the answer lies at the heart of the intimately reciprocal relationship between people plants. In telling the stories of four familiar plant 4/5(97).  · The Botany of Desire: A Plant's-Eye View of the World by Michael Pollan introduces the possibility to the reader that plants are using insects, animals and humans to ensure their own survival. An interesting book about the symbiosis between all living organism and how Charles Darwin's evolutionary theory of natural selection is happening.4/5.

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