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Flowering Earth

Flowering Earth

Peattie, Donald Culross

Paperback

Botany & HorticultureEnvironmental Studies

ISBN10: 0253206626
ISBN13: 9780253206626
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Published: Oct 22 1991
Pages: 276
Weight: 0.74
Height: 0.78 Width: 5.52 Depth: 8.01
Language: English

Even a diehard urbanite would likely be seduced by this extraordinary chronicle of the plant kingdom . . . --Publishers Weekly

. . . much more than the fascinating story of plant life . . . It is also a book about the resilience of life itself, the mystery and power of the unseen energy appearing in the visible world in a marvelous variety of forms. --Audubon Naturalist News

Here is Mr. Peattie at his superb best. . . . [H]e makes the story of botany and its pursuit as fascinating to the reader as it is to him, and the reading of it a delight. --Hartford Times

[Peattie] belongs with Gilbert White, Thoreau, John Burroughs, W. H. Hudson, Richard Jeffries, and John Muir. --Mark van Doren

First published in 1939, this beautifully imaginative book is about botany much in the same sense that Walden is about a pond. Part natural history, part biography, and part philosophical reflection, Flowering Earth is written in a warm, lyrical style that made poet-scientist Donald Culross Peattie one of America's best-known naturalist writers.

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