Flowering Earth

by Donald Culross Peattie

Book Overview

"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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0253206626
• ISBN13: 9780253206626
• Release Date: October 1991
• Publisher: Indiana University Press
• Length: 276 Pages
• Weight: 0.78 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.5" x 8.0"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher

Customer Reviews

A book as beautiful as nature itself

Captivating, poetic, descriptions of the fundamental machinery of the green world. Here is a chance to learn to see anew and to reverence this natural world which we have bruised so nearly to death.

Another classic from Peattie.

Another classic from the great writer/naturalist.This is Peattie's non-technical history of flowering plants,beautifuly written and highly educational,but you don't need to have a degree in botany to understand it.Highly recomended for all nature lovers.

Natural history of plants in lyric form

Every so often there is a book that is worth reading simply for the pleasure of the words in it, separate from whatever the author is trying to say or tell the reader. This is such a book. The effect is akin to being immersed in the depths of a symphony of words. Otherwise Peattie does an excellent job of explaining the evolution and development of the earths flowering plants. His writing is easily understood and opens botany to the more or less uninformed reader. Read this book for pleasure or for information. You will be pleased you sampled it. This is my second copy. I lent the first out and lost a friend to the book

ALL LIFE IS ONE

In this distinguished history of the plant kingdom, Donald Culross Peattie, botanist and nature writer extraordinaire, imaginatively demonstrates that the fates of all living things are bound together. This is nature writing at its best. In the intervening years since this book was written, scientists have made many new discoveries, but few nature writers have surpassed the stylistic beauty and illuminative insight displayed by the author in Flowering Earth. I recommend it to anyone interested in nature. The thoughts expressed are timeless