The Botany of Desire: A Plant's-Eye View of the World, will be speaking at the downtown LA Public Library on October 29 at 7:30pm; October 30 Hilton Costa Mesa. Call ...

Random House. 271 pp. $24.95 Michael Pollan has discovered the meaning of life. It's there on Page 110 of "The Botany of Desire." His mind is on the tulip, the most intoxicating of blooms, but it ...

Michael Pollan's purpose in his 2001 book, The Botany of Desire, he says, is to inspire humans to realize they are "members of a biotic community... creating this wondrous web called life." The PBS ...

This is part two of my interview with Michael Pollan, author of Cooked: A Natural History of Transformation; Food Rules: An Eater’s Manual; The Omnivore’s Dilemma; In Defense of Food; Second Nature; ...

The six Slow Food wine country chapters are organizing a first group event featuring a sit-down dinner and discussion with Michael Pollan, author of "The Botany of Desire." A former Harper's Magazine ...

Writer Michael Pollan's new book, The Botany of Desire: A Plants-Eye View of the World (Random House) takes a look at four plants cultivated by humans: the apple, the tulip, potatoes and marijuana.

Desire, sweetness : plant, the apple -- Desire, beauty : plant, the tulip -- Desire, intoxication : plant, marijuana -- Desire, control : plant, the potato https ...

Writers cringe when you say, "I saw your story," because it means you didn't actually read it. But I can say -- with a clear conscience -- that I saw Michael Pollan's book "The Botany of Desire" ...

“The best growers of this generation aren’t hybridizing roses, they’re growing cannabis.” — Michael Pollan, author of “The Botany of Desire” When I got the email asking if I would like to write about ...

In the second report on Michael Pollan, the author of The Botany of Desire, NPR's Ketzel Levine tells the story of how a weed from Kazakstan evolved into the most American of fruits — the apple. The ...

I also found a stop-motion Dragon Ball Z vid but it was nothing but quivering hair-doos and a lot of monotone yelling. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CnR0OofTVGc And ...