Cross-Pollinations: The Marriage of Science and Poetry

摘要: A pioneering ethnobotanist, Gary Paul Nabhan credits the arts with sparking unlikely scientific breakthroughs and believes that such "cross-pollination" engenders new forms of expression are essential to discovery. In this highly readable book, he tells four stories illustrate idea. first, coping color blindness in art class leads his career as a scientist; second, ancient American Indian songs, when translated, reveal an understanding plants animals rivals modern research; third, poem inspires approach diabetes using desert plants; fourth, coalition scientists artists creates Ironwood Forest National Monument Sonoran Desert.