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> One of the reasons.. I felt it very important to write this book is that the story of opium is the opposite one. It shows us how vulnerable and frail humans are and how fragile human civilisation is because a completely ordinary flower can completely undermine all these structures of civilisation...
#BotanyOfDesire ??
James PhelpsJun 18, 2023
I like to create moods with the
images of nature that I capture, or nature likes to create moods with images that have captured me.
#MacroPhotography
#BotanyOfDesire
#Flowers
James PhelpsMar 20, 2023

People and books that helped form who I am today:

#GrahamGreene
#JohnUpdike
#WalkerPercy
#kurtvonnegutjr
#JohnIrving
#RalphEllison
#HermannHesse
#LorenEiseley
#JamesBaldwin
#JohnSteinbeck
#RayBradbury
#FrankHerbert
#StrangerInAStrangeLand
#MalcomX
#KimStanleyRobinson
#JulianJaynes
#SomeTimesAGreatNotion
#WendellBerry
#WhatArePeopleFor
#EdwardAbbey
#DesertSolitaire
#TomRussell
#CarlHiaasen
#MichaelPollan
#BotanyOfDesire
#PattiSmith
#MichaelStipe
#DavidSedaris
#CormacMcCarthy

bs2Feb 16, 2023
#Bananas Threatened? Like in #BotanyofDesire, The #IrishFamine #Lumper
> The #kiwifruit is really threatened right now by a disease that is also taking advantage of the kiwi monoculture.
> The natural tendency in big business is to keep things simple, which is good because it keeps it cheap, but it hurts it in the end. It’s happening for grapes and olives as well. The other fruit companies should learn from the banana industry, except the banana industry hasn’t learned.
https://www.foodrepublic.com/2011/07/26/the-banana-problem/
The Banana Problem - Food Republic

Dan Koeppel, author of Banana: The Fate of the Fruit that Changed the World (2008), recently published a story in The Scientist magazine claiming that the type of banana that most Americans eat may be doomed. He speaks to Food Republic about supermarkets, banana cloning and the inevitable downfall of the cheapest fruit.

Food Republic