Reviews of The Botany of Desire
Reviews of The Botany of Desire
“Pollan shines a light on our own nature as well as our implication in the natural world.” —The New York Times “[Pollan] 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. His prose both shimmers and snaps, and he has
Flowers. Trees. Plants. We've always thought that we controlled them. But what if, in fact, they have been shaping us?