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A carregar... The Botany of Desire: A Plant's-Eye View of the World (original 2001; edição 2002)por Michael Pollan (Autor)
Pormenores da obraThe Botany of Desire: A Plant's-Eye View of the World por Michael Pollan (2001)
  
Ainda não há conversas na Discussão sobre este livro. Interesting, fun, fairly quick...the PBS special is (in my opinion) as good as the book since you aren't going to remember the detailed details anyway :) (  ) mcsp | Jan 25, 2021 |  21,95 (  ) MRMP | Jan 9, 2021 | 21,95 ( ) MRMP | Jan 9, 2021 | An interesting book overall. The theme of nature vs culture is useful, as are the considerations on monoculture and genetically modified crops. The four detailed studies certainly taught me things I didn't know and moved Pollan's argument forward. Clearly plants and humans have co-evolved in ways that we don't always recognize. (  ) TomMcGreevy | Jul 10, 2020 | paperback mikeemcg | Jun 28, 2020 |
 In other words, human desire shapes the plants that then shape human desire. In displaying for us, in his graceful and literate way, the intricacies of the mechanisms involved, Mr. Pollan shines a light on our own nature as well as on our implication in the natural world. It's an absorbing subject, and Pollan, like his hero, brings a clutch of quirky talents to the task of exploring it. He has a wide-ranging intellect, an eager grasp of evolutionary biology and a subversive streak that helps him root out some wonderfully counterintuitive points. His prose both shimmers and snaps, and he has a knack for finding perfect quotes in the oddest places (George Eliot is somehow made to speak for the sense-attenuating value of a good high). Best of all, Pollan really loves plants. Tem como guia de referência/texto acompanhante
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 tulop, 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, the plants have also benefited at least as much from their association with us. So who is really domesticating whom? Não foram encontradas descrições de bibliotecas. |
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