Flowering Earth

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.

Author: Donald Culross Peattie
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Published: 10/22/1991
Pages: 276
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.74lbs
Size: 8.01h x 5.52w x 0.78d
ISBN: 9780253206626

Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 09/20/1991