![]() Pollan braids together cosmic ideas, conversations with experts and day-to-day reports from his own garden. ![]() In his elegant sections on marijuana and potatoes, Mr. ![]() Pollan disabused me of my anthropocentric ignorance. Pollan, an accomplished gardener and garden writer, presents a plant’s-eye view of the world that challenged some of my most basic assumptions about gardening, particularly the one about whether I control my lilies or they control me. “Until I read Michael Pollan’s original, provocative and charming The Botany of Desire, I had never managed to get inside the soul of a plant. “A whimsical, literary romp through man’s perpetually frustrating and always unpredictable relationship with nature.” “We can give no higher praise to the work of this superb science writer/reporter than to say that his new book is as exciting as any you’ll read.” ![]() Best of all, Pollan really loves plants.” ![]() His prose both shimmers and snaps, and he has a knack for finding perfect quotes in the oddest places. “ has a wide-ranging intellect, an eager grasp of evolutionary biology and a subversive streak that helps him to root out some wonderfully counterintuitive points. “Pollan shines a light on our own nature as well as our implication in the natural world.” Reviews of The Botany of Desire April 30, 2001 ![]()
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