The evolution of plant life could be handled by nobody else than
Peattie in such a way as to make it fascinating even to the
neophyte. Glimpses into a strange new world, whole passages that
are beyond one's depth, unless it is familiar territory, but with
other passages so rewarding that it is worth the venture. He makes
one share his own sense of adventure, and his chapter on the
Coastal sequoias and the Big Trees of the Sierra Nevadas is
memorable. Peattie has an inimitable style; he weaves his
philosophy into his scholarship. This is not a book for everyone,
but it deserves the appreciative attention of those who loved An
Almanac for Moderns. But its real sale will be to naturalists,
botanists and those to whom the way of the plant world is known
territory. (Kirkus Reviews)
"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."
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