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Ladataan... The Botany of Desire: A Plant's-Eye View of the World (alkuperäinen julkaisuvuosi 2001; vuoden 2002 painos)– tekijä: Michael Pollan (Tekijä)
Teoksen tarkat tiedotHalun kasvioppi : maailma kasvin näkökulmasta (tekijä: Michael Pollan) (2001)
  
Ei tämänhetkisiä Keskustelu-viestiketjuja tästä kirjasta.  ssperson | Apr 3, 2021 |  I read this a few days after "The Omnivore's Dilemma", and began it the day after picking up "In Defense of Food". I loved the former, thought the latter was thin and a resaying of what he'd already said. This book was a beautiful book, though not the tome that O.D was, it's beautifully written. It also sets the stage nicely for O.D. Here, using apples (with their amazing capacity to evolve based on seeds that don't grow true to the parent), tuplips, cannabis and potatoes Pollan sets out plainly the case that Richard Attenborough made several years before: that both humans and the foods they eat co-evolve. In the final chapter, he begins to describe the connundrum of monoculture that he deals a death-blow to in O.D (in that anyone who reads it will understand for once and for all what a death-blow to humanity monoculture is). I loved this beautiful book. (  ) wickenden | Mar 8, 2021 | 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 |
 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. Tällä on käyttöopas/käsikirja:
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? No library descriptions found. |
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As always happens when I read a Michael Pollan book, I think of the parts of my life that can be changed. By the end of the last chapter (the potato chapter), I was envisioning the garden I want to plant this year, and it became about 10 times larger in my head than I really have time or energy for this year. but, the farmer's market will be doing well by us this summer.
If this book can get you thinking about our relationship with the natural world, I think it is a read well spent. (