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The Botany of Desire
This episode reveals how our deepest human desires for sweetness, beauty, intoxication, and control are cleverly exploited by plants for their own evolutionary success.
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“This episode reveals how our deepest human desires for sweetness, beauty, intoxication, and control are cleverly exploited by plants for their own evolutionary success.”
— Michael Pollan, The Botany of Desire
Human-plant interaction, evolutionary strategy, desire, agriculture
If you've ever felt a deep, almost primal pull towards certain foods or natural beauty, this will reframe your understanding of who is truly in control, and this will help you see what to do next.
Michael Pollan, a master of narrative non-fiction, reveals the hidden intelligence and agency of the natural world by meticulously tracing the surprising, reciprocal relationship between human desires and plant evolution.