Before Michael Pollan became America’s conscience on food — suggesting that we, “Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants.” — he was our tour guide into the complicated relationship between humans and ...
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 ...
On the sixth anniversary of its original publication, Pollan’s scientific twist on the human/plant symbiosis makes its audio debut. Pollan preaches a unique sort of romantic environmentalism where ...
The Botany of Desire: A Plant’s-Eye View of the World , by Michael Pollan. Random House, 271 pages, $24.95. Michael Pollan is that rare being, a contemporary American garden essayist who is well-known ...
Michael Pollan, award-winning writer at The New York Times Magazine and author of such books as The Botany of Desire: A Plant's-Eye View of the World and The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of ...
Featuring Michael Pollan and based on his best-selling book, this special takes viewers on an exploration of the human relationship with the plant world — seen from the plants' point of view. Narrated ...