"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.
- ISBN10 1322484686
- ISBN13 9781322484686
- Publish Date 17 December 2014 (first published 22 October 1991)
- Publish Status Active
- Out of Print 4 March 2015
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Trinity University Press
- Format eBook
- Language English