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<p></p> <table style="background-color: white; color:black;"> <col class='diff-marker' /> <col class='diff-content' /> <col class='diff-marker' /> <col class='diff-content' /> <tr valign='top'> <td colspan='2' style="background-color: white; color:black;">← Older revision</td> <td colspan='2' style="background-color: white; color:black;">Revision as of 21:26, 21 May 2008</td> </tr> <tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno">Line 9:</td> <td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno">Line 9:</td></tr> <tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div>Overall, an easy read that will keep you thinking long afterward.&nbsp; &nbsp;</div></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div>Overall, an easy read that will keep you thinking long afterward.&nbsp; &nbsp;</div></td></tr> <tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;"></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;"></td></tr> <tr><td class='diff-marker'>-</td><td style="background: #ffa; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div>{{Notesby|<del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">Melanie</del>}}</div></td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="background: #cfc; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div>{{Notesby|<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">MKI</ins>}}</div></td></tr> <tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;"></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;"></td></tr> <tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div>[[Category: Book Notes]]</div></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div>[[Category: Book Notes]]</div></td></tr> <!-- diff generator: internal 2026-04-22 00:07:34 --> </table>

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<p></p> <p><b>New page</b></p><div>{{BNR-table|scienticity=4|readability=5|hermeneutics=4|charisma=5|recommendation=5}}<br /> Michael Pollan, ''The Botany of Desire : A Plant’s Eye View of the World''. New York : Random House, 2002. 304 pages with bibliographic references and index.<br /> <br /> This book is about the complex relationship between people and plants. The premise is that plants please us so that we do what they want us to do. Easy example: humans cut down trees to plant crops,<br /> helping the food plants expand their territory. Pollan discusses four examples: apples, tulips, marijuana and potatoes. Each of these plants evolved in such a way that people become their promoters. We've taken them thousands of miles from their points of origin; we've devoted art to them; we've been inspired by them.<br /> <br /> There's plenty of plant science but also history (American settlement, witchcraft, Irish potato famine), biochemistry (brain chemistry) and even philosophy (the conflict of our Dionysian and Apollonian impulses). There is a lot packed into just 300 pages. The chapters on apples and potatoes are especially critical of our modern food ways as both are unsustainable monocultures and have caused a shrinking of the gene pool for each of those plants. <br /> <br /> Overall, an easy read that will keep you thinking long afterward. <br /> <br /> {{Notesby|Melanie}}<br /> <br /> [[Category: Book Notes]]</div>

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