Botany

In his national bestseller, The Botany of Desire, journalist Michael Pollan ingeniously illuminates the ever-changing and perplexing relationship between human beings and the domesticated plant. More specifically, he unmasks the four driving desires of human existence - sweetness, beauty, intoxication, and control - while simultaneously exploring the effects that they have on our lives today. In The Botany of Desire, Pollan utilizes his own personal experiences, witty anecdotes, informational passages of history, and surprising statistics to captivate the reader’s attention while also leaving them to flounder in a state of questioning as he unearths the motives behind human existence. First Desire - Sweetness: In this first chapter, Michael…

documentary need. Her images allowed for women, in her time, to see that there was more to photography then just a portrait shot - also giving women a real stand alone place in a field, science and photography, where is was dominated by men. An artist herself who drew and was a published novelist already, had the background foundation to created a book that is both beautiful art as well as important research to botany. Atkins and her father were both taught under Talbots teachings on the…

tigers into our land. The president, one of the few survivors, has given me a vital assignment. He told me, "You are our last chance. We need a plant that can save the people who have been bitten, by allowing the body to be numbed so we can operate." Right after he said this, a jaguar who had been lurking in the shadows, like a fly on the wall, pounced . The presidents last words were "Save my people. I can't leave them for dead". He bled to death quickly, since no one could operate. I vowed…

Pollutants are becoming more prevalent in the field of horticulture due to the mass production of harmful chemicals, and other toxic material that somehow find their way into the ground. With this in mind botanists are ever increasing their knowledge of how to combat against the ever looming threat of toxicity by using microbes. Microbes are living bacteria that are found naturally on pretty much everything you have ever touched. So using microbes instead of harmful pesticides, and fertilizers…

Introduction The Powells creek is a tributary of Parramatta river, located on the southern bank and it flows through Sydney Olympic park joins with the river in Home bush bay. It starts in the inner western suburbs of strathfield and flows in alternative directions. The city of Canada bay is the responsible council for this storm water system. The total catchment area of powells creek to home bush bay is 8.1 km2. The catchment includes the suburb of Burwood, Strathfield, Homebush and Rookwood.…

the subject and could barely even watch operations, which at that time they performed without Anesthesia. In 1827 Charles was sent to Christ's College in Cambridge to prepare for holy orders in the church of England. This was the last resort for failures in rich families. Charles did not care much at all about his ministry studies and spent most of his time with young sportsmen. At Cambridge, Charles began to meet many scientists. Daily, the scientists would encourage Charles to study natural…

Our campus walk around Queens Borough Community College was very interesting. We paid close attention to the plants and trees that grow around the campus. Of the variety of trees and plants, some were either planted or just naturally grows on campus grounds. There are employees that arrive on campus early in the morning and take care of the plants and grass found throughout the entire campus. Plants are widely known as the producer of oxygen that humans breathe in for respiratory purposes.…

Botanical Garden Observations On this Wednesday evening at 1800 on October 05, 2016 I am at one of the most prestigious popular hotels on the Las Vegas, NV strip. I am at the botanical garden where a new world is created with flowers and other natural resources to create wonderment for the current season; each season is changed and every year is different. While inside the botanical gardens I first want to soak up my environment with my eyes closed; I can heighten my senses to the various…

The life of herbs When growing up I was always surrounded by interesting herbs but nothing stands out like basil, parsley and mint. My father being an Italian who loves food and being in the culinary industry as a small manager of a market team for Unileaver’s food and beverage department he was never shy to try new things. I can remember growing up and all recipes he stock piled from books and magazines with pride and how excited he was when he found a new recipe to add to the pile. But even…

The Mildred E. Mathias Botanical Garden here at UCLA provides visitors with a substantial amount of plant life. The garden contains plants from all over the world and from different environments. The presentation of this wild life gives visitors a sense of nature around the world but in deeper inspection one can see how unnatural this arrangement can be. While visiting a place like botanical gardens, one mostly is conscious of the natural processes of plants and wildlife, it is almost as one is…