The Botany of Desire: a Plant's-Eye View of the World
“INTRODUCTION: THE HUMAN BUMBLEBEE David Attenborough’s 1995 public television series The Private Life of Plants probably did more than any book to open my eyes to the natural and human world as seen from the plant’s point of view. The series’ brilliant time-lapse photography immediately makes you realize that our sense of plants as passive objects is a failure of imagination, rooted in the fact that plants occupy what amounts to a different dimension. On the history of domestication and the rel...ationship between plants and people, I found these books particularly illuminating: Anderson, Edgar. Plants, Man and Life (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1952). A classic on the origins of agriculture. Balick, Michael J., and Paul Alan Cox. Plants, People and Culture: The Science of Ethnobotany (New York: Scientific American Library, 1996). Bronowski, J. The Ascent of Man (Boston: Little, Brown, 1973). Budiansky, Stephen. The Covenant of the Wild: Why Animals Chose Domestication (New York: William Morrow, 1992).MoreLess
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