Michael Pollan is a contributing writer for The New York Times Magazine as well as a contributing editor at Harper’s magazine. He is the author of two prizewinning books: Second Nature: A Gardener’s Education and A Place of My Own: The Education of an Amateur Builder. Pollan lives in Connecticut with his wife and son.
发表于2024-05-06
The Botany of Desire 2024 pdf epub mobi 电子书
一 我超爱麦当劳的薯条:晶莹剔透,散发着迷人的香味,往嘴里轻轻一嚼……人生于是完满了。这就是柏拉图式的薯条啊,完美的艺术品! 怀着爱屋及乌的心情,我把目光转向了美国的爱达荷州,这里盛产马铃薯,每年向麦当劳提供成千上万吨优质的伯班克马铃薯(Burbank Potato)。由...
评分书是很有意思,但是翻译得太可怕了,编辑也不把把关。 如第一部分关于苹果的,苹果可以做成酒,……黄油!!你见过苹果作的黄油吗??肯定是 BUTTER, 这里是果酱。烂糊糊的都可以叫做BUTTER。就算编辑不懂英文,这种毛病还是看得出的吧。 另外很多句子看得出王毅很努力了,也想...
评分《植物的欲望》这本书的副标题是植物眼中的世界,我还是愿意把这本书理解为关于四种植物的文化简史,只是,我这样的命名会对该书的销售造成毁灭性的影响。因为它不是像封面所暗示的那样一本枯燥读物,而是读来趣味盎然的书。 我最爱讲述苹果的这一章节,讲的是十九世纪初叶,...
评分在这个基因游走的世界 ——《植物的欲望》 于是 很多人和我一样五谷不分。没法分。从小就在餐厅和菜场的背景中完成吃的工作,城市里的土壤、土壤里的植物越来越少。有一天我甚至听一个诗人在抱怨,他送给女儿一掊种子,却满大街找不到泥土。而在花店里,我们出钱购买包裹在塑...
图书标签: 植物 科普 自然 botany 美国 哲学 植物之书 food
In The Botany of Desire, Michael Pollan argues that the answer lies at the heart of the intimately reciprocal relationship between people and plants. In telling the stories of four familiar plant species that are deeply woven into the fabric of our lives, Pollan illustrates how they evolved to satisfy humankinds’s most basic yearnings — and by doing so made themselves indispensable. For, just as we’ve benefited from these plants, the plants, in the grand co-evolutionary scheme that Pollan evokes so brilliantly, have done well by us. The sweetness of apples, for example, induced the early Americans to spread the species, giving the tree a whole new continent in which to blossom. So who is really domesticating whom?
Weaving fascinating anecdotes and accessible science into gorgeous prose, Pollan takes us on an absorbing journey that will change the way we think about our place in nature.
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Working in his garden one day, Michael Pollan hit pay dirt in the form of an idea: do plants, he wondered, use humans as much as we use them? While the question is not entirely original, the way Pollan examines this complex coevolution by looking at the natural world from the perspective of plants is unique. The result is a fascinating and engaging look at the true nature of domestication.
In making his point, Pollan focuses on the relationship between humans and four specific plants: apples, tulips, marijuana, and potatoes. He uses the history of John Chapman (Johnny Appleseed) to illustrate how both the apple's sweetness and its role in the production of alcoholic cider made it appealing to settlers moving west, thus greatly expanding the plant's range. He also explains how human manipulation of the plant has weakened it, so that "modern apples require more pesticide than any other food crop." The tulipomania of 17th-century Holland is a backdrop for his examination of the role the tulip's beauty played in wildly influencing human behavior to both the benefit and detriment of the plant (the markings that made the tulip so attractive to the Dutch were actually caused by a virus). His excellent discussion of the potato combines a history of the plant with a prime example of how biotechnology is changing our relationship to nature. As part of his research, Pollan visited the Monsanto company headquarters and planted some of their NewLeaf brand potatoes in his gardenseeds that had been genetically engineered to produce their own insecticide. Though they worked as advertised, he made some startling discoveries, primarily that the NewLeaf plants themselves are registered as a pesticide by the EPA and that federal law prohibits anyone from reaping more than one crop per seed packet. And in a interesting aside, he explains how a global desire for consistently perfect French fries contributes to both damaging monoculture and the genetic engineering necessary to support it.
Pollan has read widely on the subject and elegantly combines literary, historical, philosophical, and scientific references with engaging anecdotes, giving readers much to ponder while weeding their gardens. Shawn Carkonen
写的挺啰嗦的,而且是文学式啰嗦,不像枪炮玫瑰是学术式啰嗦。内容不是很切题,有点标题党,更多的是人类对于植物的欲望。
评分读完第一章实在受不了了,作者思维很跳跃而散文般的文风实在是太难follow,但是Conclusion很惊艳,the agency of botany, coevolutionary relation, BIODIVERSITY
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The Botany of Desire 2024 pdf epub mobi 电子书