Michael Pollan
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The Botany of Desire
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To garden is to be involved in the great cycle of life.
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In cultivating flowers, we cultivate our souls.
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To understand the plant is to understand ourselves.
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The desire for sweetness is what drives us to cultivate the apple.
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Our relationship with plants is a mirror of our own desires and aspirations.
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The beauty of a flower is a way of attracting us to it.
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The plants that are most successful are those that have learned how to adapt themselves to our desires.
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We shape the plants, and in turn, they shape us.
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We are not the masters of nature, but the servants of our desires.
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Humans and plants have co-evolved in a dance of mutual benefit.
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