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Preview: Michael Pollan's 'The Botany of Desire'
Quick ReadAuthor Michael Pollan offers these four examples of how plants and their key qualities have controlled humans
Marijuana, apples, potatoes and tulips have managed to manipulate humans throughout history, according to Michael Pollen, whose book-based TV special, "The Botany of Desire" premieres on PBS October 28, 2009.
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'The Botany of Desire'
As gardeners, we're familiar with the notion of companion planting, the practice of deliberately grouping certain plants so they can take advantage of each other's chemical- and disease-fighting properties. Lots of plants thrive from this mutually beneficial, symbiotic relationship. What's never occurred to me, though, is whether plants have such a relationship with humans.
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