The Botany of Desire Page #2
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- 2009
- 120 min
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sweet evolved
in the environment,
They were there
in small amounts,
And our biggest problem
was to make sure
We got enough calories
and didn't starve to death.
If a plant was sweet,
That meant it wasn't bitter
and poison,
It meant it was reasonably high
in calories,
Because sugars
are calorie-rich,
And so sweetness is the signal
For something
that's good for us.
Sweetness in nature is
very rare, very special --
ripe fruit,
And honey,
if you're willing to risk
Going into a beehive.
And apples are a particularly
big, portable,
Long-lasting vessel
for sweetness.
It was here in
The ancient forests
of central asia
That our own pursuit
of sweetness
First brought us into contact
with the apple.
This, scientists say,
Is the apple's genetic home --
The place
where it originated.
These high forests in what is
now the nation of kazakhstan
Gave rise to thousands of
different varieties,
Many of which
still grow here today.
You land in almaty,
the capital of kazakhstan,
Pushing up through
the broken pavement.
You go up into the hills,
different kinds of apples.
Great big red apples
That look like
large macintosh --
And you'd find these sort of
That even a rat wouldn't eat.
To see these wild apples
in all their diversity
Is to realize that, in these
forests, this is, you know,
These are god's first drafts of
One way the apple
could secure its future
Was by expanding its habitat --
But that's a hard thing to do
if you're a plant.
You know, the apple has
the same existential predicament
Of any plant -- it's stuck
in place, it's rooted down.
So you had the apple
beginning its life
in central asia,
If not for mammals,
that they evolved to appeal to.
If you're a bear in a forest
and you're hungry,
You don't pick the little
blueberry sized apples,
You pick the biggest ones
you can get.
If you find
a particularly sweet one,
You're going to eat
more of that one
Than a sour one.
And in their case,
They eat the whole apple
and excrete the seeds,
And that's how apples
spread their genes.
And sweetness was the ticket
out of that forest.
But to move farther
a new ally --
And found one...In us.
Part of
the apple's genius
Has been to insinuate itself
into our culture,
And art and religion, as well.
It's kind of
I mean, it just kind of
shows up everywhere.
Even when it wasn't
really there.
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