Tuesday, April 29, 2014

Botany of Desire

The relationship between bees and flowers is an example of what is called "coevolution." While the bee and the flower act on each other due to their individual interests, the two unconsciously trade favors: the flower gives food to the bee and the bee gives transportation to the flower genes (or other plant genes). Because of this, I found that the bee and the flower have a symbiotic relationship of mutualism.
http://www.bee-hexagon.net/en/gibran.htm
The relationship between the bee and the flower is similar to that of a human and whatever he/she is planting. In the photo above,  you see a woman planting spuds. Just as the bee was attracted to the flower, the woman was interested in the spuds. Both the woman and the spuds benefit from acting on each other. The woman receives food and the spuds gets its genes spread.
http://farmerjensgarden.blogspot.com/2010_04_01_archive.html

The four desires: sweetness, beauty, intoxication, and control. The apple represents our desire for sweetness; the tulip represents our desire for beauty; the cannabis represents our desire for intoxication; the potato represents our desire for control (and probably taste). All of the plants above are examples of domesticated plants. While they are given the title of domesticated, they all have the ability to manipulate our desires with their appearances and other qualities, making themselves popular in human agriculture. 
http://www.bubblews.com/news/3109549-no-no-no-i-am-not-give-you-my-appleapple-i-love-most-do-you-alsohttp://www.zeewallpaper.com/tulip-hd-wallpapers/
http://thedailyblog.co.nz/2014/04/16/want-to-get-rid-of-synthetic-cannabis-legalize-real-cannabis/
http://www.potatoes.com/




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