The Botany of Desire: A Plant's-Eye View of the World

much more responsive to our impatient cravings than the slow reticence whereby seedlings and weeds emerge from the dark depths to become visible against the surface of the soil.

spiritual. I could see now how characteristic that mixing is, and that perhaps the sentence isn’t so awkward after all: “One of the greatest assets of a farm is the sheer ecstasy of life.”

extracted by modern chemical means tend

For it is there—in nature—that we bump up against the mystery of a little brown mushroom with the power to change the consciousness of the animals that eat it.

and found his priorities in life gradually shifting.

Strawberries first shaped my view of a world full of gifts simply scattered at your feet.