Yes, there is good television.. "The Botany of Desire" tonight on PBS

[tridim]

http://www.pbs.org/thebotanyofdesire

Based on the 2001 book of the same name and directed and produced by Michael Schwarz, "The Botany of Desire" is as faithful a TV adaptation as TV adaptations come. True, it may disappoint readers who delight in Pollan's supple prose and whimsically learned digressions.

But for the uninitiated, the show provides a visually interesting and informative tour of four crops - the apple, the tulip, marijuana and the potato - that Pollan argues reflect different aspects of human desire.

Pollan's original thesis is that people and plants form a reciprocal relationship. We have cultivated the apple because of our desire for sweetness, the tulip for beauty, the marijuana plant for intoxication and the potato for control over our sustenance. In turn, these plants have transformed human history.

Read more: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2009/10/28/DDRN1A8NRC.DTL#ixzz0VHJYSJNK

[TwilightGardener]

1. Thanks! Forgot that this was on tonight!

[eShirl]

2. kick

[elfin]

3. One of my all time favorite

non-fiction books.

Watching it now --

[msongs]

4. how plants have hustled us into protecting and prepetuating them lol nt