The Botany of Desire: A Plant’s-Eye View of the World

The Botany of Desire: A Plant's-Eye View of the World

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Michael Pollan takes a trip in his latest book, “How to Change Your Mind”

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In “The Botany of Desire” (2001), his “plant's-eye view of the world,” Pollan wrote about the cross-cultural desire to alter our consciousness. Back in 1997, he wrote about growing opium in a home garden for Harper's magazine. “It's always been an...

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- Village Life

Intrigued by Michael Pollan's The Botany of Desire: A Plant's-Eye View of the World, Rath visited the Plant Genetics Resource Unit in Geneva, a joint USDA/Cornell University project, in order to better understand the process of grafting, necessary to...

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