Flowers. Trees. Plants. We've always thought that we controlled them. But what if, in fact, they have been shaping us? Using this provocative question as a jumping off point, The Botany of Desire ...

The Botany of Desire: A Plant's-Eye View of the World, will be speaking at the downtown LA Public Library on October 29 at 7:30pm; October 30 Hilton Costa Mesa. Call ...

What do sweetness, beauty, intoxication, and control have to do with plants? Well...everything according to Michael Pollan, the author of the best selling The Botany of Desire: A Plant's-Eye View of ...

Erudite, engaging and highly original, journalist Pollan's fascinating account of four everyday plants and their coevolution with human society challenges traditional views about humans and nature.

Michael Pollan's purpose in his 2001 book, The Botany of Desire, he says, is to inspire humans to realize they are "members of a biotic community... creating this wondrous web called life." The PBS ...

The Botany of Desire: A Plant’s-Eye View of the World , by Michael Pollan. Random House, 271 pages, $24.95. Michael Pollan is that rare being, a contemporary American garden essayist who is well-known ...

On the sixth anniversary of its original publication, Pollan’s scientific twist on the human/plant symbiosis makes its audio debut. Pollan preaches a unique sort of romantic environmentalism where ...

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Pollan, author of 'The Omnivore's Dilemma' and 'The Botany of Desire,' talks about his most recent book, 'How to Change Your Mind.' It covers the history of psychedelic drugs like LSD and magic ...

Featuring Michael Pollan and based on his best-selling book, this special takes viewers on an exploration of the human relationship with the plant world — seen from the plants' point of view. Narrated ...

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