The Botany of Desire

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Call Number: DVD 306.45 Bo, Adult DVD / Nonfiction / General / Botany of Desire
On Shelf At: Downtown Library, Westgate Branch

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Release date: Nov. 3, 2009.
Originally produced for television, 2008.
Features: deleted scenes.
Features, Michael Pollan ; narrator, Frances McDormand.
Shows how human desires are an essential, intricate part of natural history. The program will explore the natural history of four plants -the apple, the tulip, marijuana, and the potato - and the corresponding human desires - sweetness, beauty, intoxication and control. This two-hour documentary begins in Michael Pollan's garden, and roams the world, from the fields of Iowa to the apple forests of Kazakhstan, from a medical marijuana hot house to the tulip markets of Amsterdam.
DVD; Dolby 2.0 stereo.

COMMUNITY REVIEWS

Life Blooms submitted by clayton on January 13, 2010, 9:40am This is a really enjoyable and most interesting documentary. Which can be hard to come across sometimes these days, it reminds us of how nature is still calling the shots and that she will continue to do so, regardless of what we may think.

A Real Pleasure submitted by Duette on December 1, 2016, 6:49am This is a wonderful documentary. I will never look at apples, tulips, cannabis or potatoes the same!

Excellent submitted by shannonwait on July 29, 2018, 7:50am This was fascinating, and opened up a whole world of plant history to me.