Our Green and Living World: The Wisdom to Save It

by Holly S. Sklar and Robert A. Ayensu, Edward S.; Heywood, Vernon H.; Lucas, Grenville L.; and Defilipps

The authors survey the ways in which we are losing our ability to survive biologically and present new approaches to regaining it. They examine our planet's green life-layer from every point of view: cultural and artistic, religious, ecological, economic, and scientific. These world respected botanists highlight the true worth of the Plant Kingdom for our lives - from Amazonian rain forests to African violets or tropical foliage plants at the windowsill...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0895990164
• ISBN13: 9780895990167
• Release Date: January 1984
• Publisher: Smithsonian Books (DC)
• Length: 255 Pages
• Weight: 2.75 lbs.