The Botany of Desire

Name: The Botany of Desire
Author: Michael Pollan

by Michael Pollan

Natural history of plants shaped by human desire and cultivation

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Michael Pollan

American journalist and writer whose The Omnivore's Dilemma transformed debate about food, agriculture, and American eating habits. How to Change Your Mind examined the therapeutic potential of psychedelics. In Defense of Food proposed simple rules for eating in an age of nutritional confusion.

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The Omnivore's DilemmaInvestigation of industrial agriculture's environmental and ethical costs
How to Change Your MindJourney through psychedelic science and its therapeutic potential
In Defense of FoodManifesto against processed food advocating for simplicity in eating
Second NatureEssays on gardens, nature writing, and human relationship with landscape