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发表于2025-01-10
The Botany of Desire pdf epub mobi txt 電子書 下載 2025
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 tulip, 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, we have also done well by them. So who is really domesticating whom?
邁剋爾・波倫,《紐約時報》的撰稿人,也是《哈潑》雜誌的特邀編輯。他是兩本獲奬書的作者:《第二自然:一個園丁的教育》、《一個我自己的地方:一個業餘建築者的教育》。波倫現在與他的妻子和兒子住在美國康涅狄格州。
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