Flowering earth
Author(s)
Bibliographic Information
Flowering earth
Indiana University Press, c1991
- : pbk
Available at / 1 libraries
-
No Libraries matched.
- Remove all filters.
Note
Includes index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
"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.
Table of Contents
Foreword
I. On Striking Your Roots
II. On Branching Out
III. Chlorophyll: the Sun Trap
IV. What a Plant Is
V. Protoplasm-the Body of Life
VI. The Seeds of Life
VII. The First Algas
VIII. The Seaweeds
IX. The Fern Forests
X. Diatoms-Grass of the Sea
XI. Conifers and Cycads
XII. The Rise of the Modern Floras
XIII. A Transplanting
XIV. A Garden Alliance
XV. The Moment of Flowering
XVI. The Sleep of the Seed
XVII. Growth
XVIII. The Web of Life
Afterword
Index
by "Nielsen BookData"