Botany of Desire wink wink nudge nudge

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In the novel, Botany of Desire, Michael Pollan takes a much different look at the world of plants than we usually do. 

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This view is that we don't choose what plants to plant, but rather, they choose us. Pollan rails on the word "domestic," because that implies that we have domesticated animals. Instead, genomes of dogs have evolved to be the "domesticated" animals to accomodate us. Thus, it is more appropriate to say that dogs domesticate themselves.

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Pollan preaches that plants know exactly what they're doing when they show that potential for a juicy tenderness of a french fry in their round potato figure. Plants play us like they do bees: they display certain characteristics and their genome book shows us what we want to see, and in turn we spread their seeds, much like bees spread their pollen after being enticed by certain characteristics.

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The beautiful thing about nature is that it is one big reciprocal cycle, and we rely on so many different organisms. It is also crazy to think that plants are able to understand our desires (ie getting intoxicated) and enable themselves to pleasure us (ie marijuana plants). 

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