POEM

FindCenter AddIcon
Book Image

"The World Is Too Much With Us"

Poems Author Image

This sonnet by William Wordsworth, published in 1807, laments the weakening connection between humans and nature.

Read on www.poetryfoundation.org

FindCenter Video Image

Love and Lies

How do you spread your genes around when you’re stuck in place? You get really, really good at things like biochemistry, at engineering, design, and color, and at the art of manipulating the “higher” creatures, up to and including animals like us.

Article
Michael Pollan
2009
FindCenter AddIcon
FindCenter Video Image

The Intelligent Plant

In 1973, a book claiming that plants were sentient beings that feel emotions, prefer classical music to rock and roll, and can respond to the unspoken thoughts of humans hundreds of miles away landed on the New York Times best-seller list for nonfiction.

Article
Michael Pollan
2013
FindCenter AddIcon
FindCenter Video Image
17:33

Michael Pollan: A Plant’s-Eye View

What if human consciousness isn’t the end-all and be-all of Darwinism? What if we are all just pawns in corn’s clever strategy game to rule the Earth? Author Michael Pollan asks us to see the world from a plant’s-eye view.

Video
Michael Pollan
2008
FindCenter AddIcon
FindCenter Video Image

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

In 1637, one Dutchman paid as much for a single tulip bulb as the going price of a town house in Amsterdam.

Book
Michael Pollan
2002
FindCenter AddIcon

EXPLORE TOPIC

Connection with Nature