Michael Pollan

1 books with highlights

Books

Featured Highlights

To garden is to be involved in the great cycle of life.

From The Botany of Desire

In cultivating flowers, we cultivate our souls.

From The Botany of Desire

To understand the plant is to understand ourselves.

From The Botany of Desire

The desire for sweetness is what drives us to cultivate the apple.

From The Botany of Desire

Our relationship with plants is a mirror of our own desires and aspirations.

From The Botany of Desire

The beauty of a flower is a way of attracting us to it.

From The Botany of Desire

The plants that are most successful are those that have learned how to adapt themselves to our desires.

From The Botany of Desire

We shape the plants, and in turn, they shape us.

From The Botany of Desire

We are not the masters of nature, but the servants of our desires.

From The Botany of Desire

Humans and plants have co-evolved in a dance of mutual benefit.

From The Botany of Desire