The Botany of Desire, by Michael Pollan

Each garden has a purpose and gardeners spend a lot of time looking after them. Especially when they make a profit, the gardeners propose their own way to look after their own garden. In his book "Desire Botany", Michael Poland insists that the best gardener of his generation is often dedicated to cultivating marijuana called marijuana. I am interested in Polan's argument, I fully agree with him. As they complete the planting of the plants indoors and they are getting good business from them, the hemp growers are the best gardener, and the plants themselves need human beings to change the state of transcendental I met.

In 'Sexual botany', a food-tasting writer Michael Poland talks about the story of Johnny Appleseed, a frontier hero who introduced apple trees in many states and settled. As everyone knows, Johnny Appleseed is against the transplant. However, in order to make a sweet and edible apple, it is necessary to grow precise cultivar by cloning as a graft on the rootstock. Conversely, if you plant them from seeds, you will get the result of the apple flower in a wild and brutal way - a heterogeneous crab apple. This is the crop that Johnny Appleseed got - not that good, but it is good to drink as a hard cider

GWEN IFILL: This book is "Botany of Desire: Plant World View". Among them, the author Michael Poland explores their relationship to human urge and plant life "" Sweetness to our apples, tulips, beauty, marijuana to produce fully genetically modified potatoes Our wish to control poisoning and nature by. Welcome Poland. MICHAEL POLLAN: Well, it all began with bumblebee. The premise of this book is very simple. I ... I was watching bumblebee in the garden one day, I thought about sewing seeds. "Well, what do you have as a gardener?" And understand that this is more than I realized. Like a bumblebee, I spread a gene of one species One is not another one, it is not a single but a potato like a bumblebee, I thought that these plants are for my benefit.