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  • From: Ginda Fisher <ginda@concentric.net>
  • To: nafex@yahoogroups.com
  • Subject: Re: [nafex] Pollen-ation
  • Date: Sat, 25 Aug 2001 16:05:40 -0400

I also have to put in a good word. He gets a little mystic at times,
but he has interesting things to say. Having read his chapter on
Marijuana, I doubt it's one of his four favorite plants. He says he
chose plants to write about that had good stories, and that he'd grown
himself.

I do think he's fond of potatoes and apples.

Ginda Fisher

Mark Garrison wrote:
>
> > Doreen: I have read some of Michael Pollen's stuff, and am not
> > impressed. He seems to be one of those garden writers who knows just
> > enough to make him dangerous. I have read that one of his four
> > favorite crops is marijuana. I'll bet you could learn more about apples
> > from Ed Fackler in five minutes than by reading one of Pollen's books.
>
> Have to put in a word for Michael Pollan. His subject is man's relation to
> nature, and he is a pleasure to read; he's an entertaining writer, gives a
> lot of food for thought, and he is totally undogmatic. He gets into apples
> (and tulips and potatoes and marijuana) in his latest book, The Botany of
> Desire. His earlier book, Second Nature, is equally good.
>
> Mark Garrison, RI, zone 6
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  • [nafex] Pollen-ation, Don Yellman, 08/22/2001
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      • Re: [nafex] Pollen-ation, Ginda Fisher, 08/25/2001

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