The Botany of Desire, by Michael Pollan

Beauty can be defined in various ways. Regardless of its definition, beauty is limited by four characteristics, symmetry, health, vitality and complexity. Michael Pollan explores our role in nature in the desire botany of books. Polan began to discover why most beautiful flowers manipulate animals to breed that gene. In a sense beauty is to tame us by choosing what we think is beautiful, but most people think that man is the only owner of nature.

In 'Sexual botany', a food author, Michael Poland, introduces apple trees in many states and tells the story of Johnny Appleseed, a frontier hero who 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 varieties 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 the human impulse and plant life. Our wish to control poisoning and nature by producing completely genetically modified potatoes. 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. "Now, what do you have as a gardener as a bee?" And understand that this is more than I realized. Like a bumblebee, I spread the genes of one species One is not one but a potato, like a bumblebee, I thought that these plants are for my benefit.