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Michael Pollan on connection with nature

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The Botany of Desire: A Plant’s-Eye View of the World

In 1637, one Dutchman paid as much for a single tulip bulb as the going price of a town house in Amsterdam.

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Michael Pollan
2002
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Michael Pollan: A Plant’s-Eye View

What if human consciousness isn’t the end-all and be-all of Darwinism? What if we are all just pawns in corn’s clever strategy game to rule the Earth? Author Michael Pollan asks us to see the world from a plant’s-eye view.

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Michael Pollan
2008
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Love and Lies

How do you spread your genes around when you’re stuck in place? You get really, really good at things like biochemistry, at engineering, design, and color, and at the art of manipulating the “higher” creatures, up to and including animals like us.

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Michael Pollan
2009
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FindCenter Quotes ImageDon’t eat anything your great-grandmother wouldn’t recognize as food.

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The Intelligent Plant

In 1973, a book claiming that plants were sentient beings that feel emotions, prefer classical music to rock and roll, and can respond to the unspoken thoughts of humans hundreds of miles away landed on the New York Times best-seller list for nonfiction.

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Michael Pollan
2013
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Michael Pollan: "Cannabis, the Importance of Forgetting, and the Botany of Desire"

Michael Pollan presented his lecture as the 2002-2003 Avenali Chair in the Humanities at the Townsend Center for the Humanities, UC Berkeley.

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Michael Pollan
2011
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Michael Pollan—Psychedelics and How to Change Your Mind | Bioneers

As one of our most brilliant and clear-eyed explorers of such topics as plant intelligence and how we feed ourselves, Michael will share his luminous insights from what began as investigative reportage and became a very personal interior journey into the mystery of consciousness and the nature of...

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Michael Pollan
2018
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FindCenter Quotes ImageThe single greatest lesson the garden teaches is that our relationship to the planet need not be zero-sum, and that as long as the sun still shines and people still can plan and plant, think and do, we can, if we bother to try, find ways to provide for ourselves without diminishing the world.

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Fantastic Fungi

Fantastic Fungi is a descriptive time-lapse journey about the magical, mysterious and medicinal world of fungi and their power to heal, sustain and contribute to the regeneration of life on Earth that began 3.5 billion years ago.

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2019
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Desktop Diaries: Michael Pollan

For writer Michael Pollan, the contents of his refrigerator is often on the forefront of his mind: "I do think about food a lot, and if I'm distracted it's with thoughts of what's in the fridge.

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Michael Pollan
2017
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