Michael Pollan on Gardens

Studio 360 | Aug 6, 2011

Kurt Andersen and environmental journalist Michael Pollan talk about the garden and the relationship artists have to the botanical world. 

Pollan is the author of The Botany of Desire: A Plant’s Eye View of the World. Pollan has been gardening since he was a boy and has been writing about gardens and nature since the mid-1980s as an environmental journalist. His other books are Second Nature: A Gardener’s Education and A Place of My Own: The Education of an Amateur Builder.

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