In more than 40 books written over several decades, Richard Mabey has chronicled his exploration of woods, fields and gardens throughout his native Britain. Now in his 80s, Mr. Mabey is more inclined ...
“I suspect that the real moral thinkers end up, wherever they may start, in botany,” the essayist Annie Dillard mused in 1974. “We know nothing for certain, but we seem to see that the world turns ...
Journalist Mabey (Flora Britannica) explores the meadows, woods, and gardens outside his home in Norfolk, England, in this charming mosaic of plant descriptions, ecological musings, and personal ...
The cabaret of plants : forty thousand years of plant life and the human imagination / Richard Mabey
"First published in Great Britain in 2015 under the title 'The cabaret of plants: botany and the imagination'"--Title-page verso. Contents The vegetable plot -- How to see a plant. Symbols from the ...
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