Linking four basic human desires (sweetness, beauty, intoxication and control) with plants that satisfy them (apples, tulips, marijuana and potatoes), the author explores how plant species have thrived over the millenniums by seducing other creatures, including humans.
My sweet, sweet, sweetness.
Indignation, joy, weariness, sweetness: human beings have felt these emotions before, and their prior expressions well up gorgeously in Gregerson's most impressive passages: Jason had the misfortune to suffer misfortune the third of July.
Because the peripheral neural responses of humans to sugars predict their verbal reports about sweet intensity [ 112], peripheral differences in taste sensitivity may be a component of human behavior toward sweetness.
In humans miraculin adds sweetness to all acids and GA blocks all kind of sweetness.
And all this helped us appreciate, as deeply as ever, the exquisite variety and fragile sweetness of human life.
Liu's stories aren't always so tender; in imagining the human future, his romantic sweetness is balanced with harsh objectivity.
He couldn't have dismissed the British Giorgiones with such certainty if he couldn't also have seen what was characteristic of Giorgione: "the lovely landscape... the effects of light and colour, and... the sweetness of human relations".
