The Botany of Desire: A Plant's-Eye View of the World pdf

迈克尔·波伦是前七本书的作者，包括《熟食》、《食物规则》、《捍卫食物》、《杂食动物的困境》和《欲望的植物学》，这些书都是《纽约时报》的畅销书。 作为《纽约时报》杂志的长期撰稿人，他还在哈佛大学和加州大学伯克利分校教授写作。 2010年，《时代》杂志将他评为全球最具影响力的100人之一。

The Botany of Desire: A Plant's-Eye View of the World pdf 迈克尔·波伦

Every schoolchild learns about the mutually beneficial dance of honeybees and flowers: The bee collects nectar and pollen to make honey and, in the process, spreads the flowers’ genes far and wide. In The Botany of Desire, Michael Pollan ingeniously demonstrates how people and domesticated plants have formed a similarly reciprocal relationship. He masterfully links four fundamental human desires—sweetness, beauty, intoxication, and control—with the plants that satisfy them: the apple, the tulip, marijuana, and the potato. In telling the stories of four familiar species, Pollan illustrates how the plants have evolved to satisfy humankind’s most basic yearnings. And just as we’ve benefited from these plants, we have also done well by them. So who is really domesticating whom?