![]() ![]() LEVINE: Something like motor oil, perhaps, or maybe molasses, both of which Michael Pollan used liberally during the heinous woodchuck war. I’m going to have to keep an eye on this. Wow, that is too big for a chipmunk, too small for a woodchuck. MICHAEL POLLAN (Author): There’s a new animal. ‘Here’s a gardener,’ you might say to yourself, ‘who really gets it, a guy who’s struck a balance in the wild.’ ![]() Despite everything he’s added, the paths and stone steps, the hand-dug pond, the writing house and the fenced vegetable garden, what you see is the Connecticut countryside, a rolling geography of hills and woods. ![]() ![]() His home is more of a landscape than a carefully defined garden. Michael Pollan gardens with a deft touch. Ketzel Levine spoke with him there for the first of two reports. Much of his writing has drawn from his experiences in his Connecticut garden. Pollan is a contributing writer for The New York Times Magazine. In his new book, “The Botany of Desire,” Michael Pollan suggests that the plant world’s most obliging suitor is man, and the plants that have figured out how best to keep people interested are nature’s greatest success stories. The most obvious is the flower, designed to attract pollinators, typically bees. Plants have evolved complicated strategies to ensure their survival. Evolution of plants as explained in Michael Pollan’s new book, Botany of Desire Morning Edition (NPR), June 4, 2001 ![]()
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