TY  - BOOK
AU  - Pollan,Michael
TI  - The botany of desire: a plant's eye view of the world 
SN  - 0375501290
AV  - QK46.5.H85 P66 2001
PY  - 2002///
CY  - New York
PB  - Random House 
KW  - Human-plant relationships
KW  - Fruits
KW  - Vegetables
KW  - Horticulture
KW  - Produce
KW  - Plants
KW  - Botany
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (p. [247]-256) and index
N2  - 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?
ER  -