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Greenflix boasts the hot, newly released film The Botany of Desire. The apple, the tulip and marijuana are the stars of the film adaptation of journalist Michael Pollan’s best-selling book of the same name. The film takes viewers to the apple orchards of Kazakhstan, the tulip markets of Amsterdam and a medical marijuana hot house. These famous plants share histories with the human desire – for sweetness, beauty, intoxication, and control over production. The developmental relationship between human beings and the plants is what Pollan calls the botany of desire. In this coevolution, Pollan argues human beings are as equally controlled as in control. “It makes just as much sense to think of agriculture as something the grasses did to people as a way to conquer the trees,” he writes. Producer and director of The Botany of Desire, Michael Schwarz has produced numerous documentary films and won several Emmy awards for his work.
  • DJK 3 months ago
    YES! What a GREAT book! I can't wait for this film...
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