“There are a lot more roses and tulips around today, in a lot more places, then there were before people took an interest in them. For a flower the path to world domination passes through humanity’s ever-shifting ideals of beauty.”

— Michael Pollan, book The Botany of Desire

Source: The Botany of Desire (2001), Chapter 2 (p. 79)

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