![]() ![]() In telling the stories of four familiar plant species that are deeply woven into the fabric of our lives, Pollan illustrates how they evolved to satisfy humankinds’s most basic yearnings - and by doing so made themselves indispensable. In The Botany of Desire, Michael Pollan argues that the answer lies at the heart of the intimately reciprocal relationship between people and plants. How could flowers, of all things, become such objects of desire that they can drive men to financial ruin? Three and a half centuries later, Amsterdam is once again the mecca for people who care passionately about one particular plant - thought this time the obsessions revolves around the intoxicating effects of marijuana rather than the visua. ![]() In 1637, one Dutchman paid as much for a single tulip bulb as the going price of a town house in Amsterdam. ![]()
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