I am a chef, a wannabe scientist and a plant geek so this concept blew me away. I had started the book about 3 times but had been sidetracked for various things. I know I will be reading the book for sure after watching this doc.
What do you think?
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War is God's was of teaching Americans geography.
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The wording of the trailer implied that plants have been deliberately evolving to meet our desires... a common misconception of how evolution occurs. I don't think the implication was deliberate, but a result of the poetic narration. Very cool concept though.
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I'm sorry, but after that Twilight Zone episode To Serve Man, I'll withhold my opinion about plants being so amicable.
Don't Feed The Plants!!!!! *cue rock music*
__________________ On "illegal" immigration: "Give us your poor, your tired, your huddled masses longing to be free..." -The Statue of Liberty
On the alleged connection between Hitler and Atheism:
"For it was by the Will of God that men were made of a certain bodily shape, were given their natures and their faculties." -Hitler, Mein Kampf, Volume II, Chapter X
Danth's Law: "If you have to insist that you've won an internet argument, you've probably lost badly."
I lol'd at the men lying down on that machine, moving along, picking fruit. Truly, they have the best of jobs.
Obviously you have never done it. It is grueling, painful work.
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"It is because we believe absurdities that we are able to commit atrocities." -- Voltaire
"This isn't right. This isn't even wrong." -- Wolfgang Pauli
"Je ne suis pas marxiste." -- Karl Marx
"Faith is believing what you know ain't so."-- Mark Twain
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I am a chef, a wannabe scientist and a plant geek so this concept blew me away. I had started the book about 3 times but had been sidetracked for various things. I know I will be reading the book for sure after watching this doc.
What do you think?
I read this book for my botany class, it's excellent. I'm interested in reading his next book, 'The Omnivore's Dilemma'
I lol'd at the men lying down on that machine, moving along, picking fruit. Truly, they have the best of jobs.
Those were Dutch Tulip pickers.
__________________ The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie -- deliberate, contrived and dishonest, but the myth, persistent, persuasive, and unrealistic. Belief in myths allows the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought.
-JFK
War is God's was of teaching Americans geography.
-Unknown
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