Alex Wright has been reading Michael Pollan’s “Botany of Desire”.

“Pollan, an environmental writer and frequent contributor to the New York Times magazine, has constructed a dark and slightly unsettling drama of our species’ relationship with so-called “domesticated” plants.

The book poses a radical conceit: that much as our species likes to think of itself as masters of the natural world – as evidenced in our invention of agriculture – it may just be the other way around: perhaps it is the plants who have domesticated us?”

Rocks are slow life – plants are slightly faster – but everything’s in charge of us.

» Alex Wright: The Botany of Desire