the botany of desire Author:michael pollan a plant's eye view of the world. we can be grateful indeed that one of our wittiest writers about nature is also one of our wisest. pollan makes a persuasive case that the plants we might be tempted to see as having been most domesticated by humanity are in fact also those that have been most effective in domesticating us. it is a stunning insig... more »ht and no one will come away from this book without having their ideas of nature stretched and challenged.« less