Scholarly, engaging and extremely innovative, journalist Pollan's enthralling account of 04 everyday plants and their co-progression with individual culture tests customary observations about persons and environment. Employing the history of tulips, apples, cannabis and potatoes to exemplify the compound, mutual association between natural world and humans, Pollan demonstrates how these species have fruitfully exploited human needs to thrive.
This paper discusses chapter 1 & 2 of the book “Botany of desire” which is about tulips and apples. The apple mirrors the wish of sweetness and the tulip demostrates beauty.