By Henry D. Thoreau, Geoff Wisner
ISBN-10: 0300221010
ISBN-13: 9780300221015
A few of Henry David Thoreau's most pretty nature writing used to be encouraged through the flowering timber and vegetation of harmony. An inveterate year-round rambler and magazine keeper, he faithfully recorded, dated, and defined his sightings of the floating water lily, the elusive wild azalea, and the overdue autumn foliage of the scarlet oak.
This inviting collection of Thoreau's most sensible flower writings is prepared by way of day of the yr and followed by way of Thoreau's philosophical speculations and his observations of the elements and of alternative vegetation and animals. They remove darkness from the author's spirituality, his trust in nature's correspondence with the human soul, and his feel that anticipation—of spring, of plant life but to bloom—renews our reference to the earth and with immortality.
Thoreau's Wildflowers beneficial properties greater than two hundred of the black-and-white drawings initially created via Barry Moser for his first illustrated ebook, Flowering crops of Massachusetts. This quantity additionally offers "Thoreau as Botanist," an essay by way of Ray Angelo, the best authority at the flowering vegetation of Concord.
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