Michael Pollan, The Botany Of Desire: A Plant's-Eye View Of The World Quotes
It has become much harder, in the past century, to tell where the garden leaves off and pure nature begins.
Johnny Appleseed was revered . . he was . . . an evangelist (of a doctrine veering perilously close to pantheism).
For great many species today, “fitness” means the ability to get along in a world in which humankind has become the most powerful evolutionary force.
