Based on Michael Pollan’s best-selling book of the same name and narrated by Frances McDormand THE BOTANY OF DESIRE proposes that people and domesticated plants have formed a similarly reciprocal relationship.
Parrot Tulip in Keukenhoff Gardens, Netherlands.
The Botany of Desire examines this unique relationship through the stories of four familiar species, relating how they evolved to satisfy humankind’s most basic yearnings. Linking fundamental human desires for sweetness, beauty, intoxication and control with the plants that satisfy them — the apple, the tulip, marijuana and the potato —The Botany of Desire shows that we humans are intricately woven into the web of nature, not standing outside it.
The film includes an interview with Bruce Tabashnik, a professor and head of the entomology department at the University of Arizona
Tuesday at 8 p.m. on PBS-HD 6.
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