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“For as long as the carnival of capitalism lasts, the rules of logic are repealed...”
― Michael Pollan, The Botany of Desire: A Plant's-Eye View of the World

“Plants are nature’s alchemists, expert at transforming water, soil and sunlight into an array of precious substances, many of them beyond the ability of human beings to conceive, much less manufacture.”
― Michael Pollan, The Botany of Desire: A Plant's-Eye View of the World

“The bubble logic driving tulipomania has since acquired a name: “the greater fool theory.” Although by any conventional measure it is folly to pay thousands for a tulip bulb (or for that matter an Internet stock), as long as there is an even greater fool out there willing to pay even more, doing so is the most logical thing in the world.”
― Michael Pollan, The Botany of Desire: A Plant's-Eye View of the World

“For great many species today, “fitness” means the ability to get along in a world in which humankind has become the most powerful evolutionary force.”
― Michael Pollan, The Botany of Desire: A Plant's-Eye View of the World