1. Jeanette Winterson,The PowerBook(New York:Vintage,2001),9.
2. Michael Pollan,The Botany of Desire: A Plant's-Eye View of the World(New York:Random House,2001),83.
3. Judith Halberstam,In a Queer Time and Place: Transgender Bodies, Subcultural Lives(New York:New York University Press,2005),4.
4. SeeAnna Pavord,The Tulip(New York:Bloomsbury,1999),162;Mike Dash,Tulipomania: The Story of the World's Most Coveted Flower and the Extraordinary Passions It Aroused(New York:Three Rivers Press,1999),83;Pollan,Botany of Desire,86.