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Saturday, June 16th, 2012 12:10 pm
Berry picking. I think i would have enjoyed a quiet hike and paying for riper picked berries. It was not an opportunity for an inexpensive bounty of fruit. Still, it was a pleasant way to spend the morning.

The Botany of Desire makes a fascinating contrast to The Shallows. Both authors challenge the frame of humans being the ones in charge and making the decisions while examining the other side of the equation of change. Challenging that frame is uncomfortable, but Botany seems to celebrate the co-evolution of humans and plants, whereas The Shallows frets and worries about the co-evolution of humans and the Internet.

I am glad to have moved on to another book, abandoning both the mystery and the Shallows.
Saturday, June 16th, 2012 11:39 pm (UTC)
Oh, dear. (
Sunday, June 17th, 2012 12:57 pm (UTC)
Botany of Desire was interesting but irritated me after a while. I'm not sure why. I hear you on the berry-picking.