I drew on Michael Pollan’s inspiring ‘The Botany of Desire: A Plant’s-Eye View of the World’ quite a bit while I was doing research for The Seed Thief, and so I was delighted to find this link to the two hour long PBS special feature on it:

http://video.pbs.org/video/1283872815/

Apart from anything else, it will also remind you just how crucial bees are in the nature of things.

Once your mind has been blown, I still urge you to buy the book.