How did these organs of plant sex manage.... : Quote by Michael Pollan

“ How did these organs of plant sex manage to get themselves cross-wired with human ideas of value and status and Eros? And what might our ancient attraction for flowers have to teach us about the deeper mysteries of beauty - what one poet has called "this grace wholly gratuitous"? Is that what it is? Or does beauty have a purpose? (64) ”

Michael Pollan
  • From : The Botany of Desire: A Plant's-Eye View of the World
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