Lab Girl: A Story of Trees, Science and Love by Hope Jahren – review
Emanating from these lives are larger questions about the measure of a good life and what it means to leave a lasting mark of betterment on an imperfect world: Are achievement and acclaim enough for happiness? Is genius? Is love? Weaving through the narrative is a set of peripheral figures — Ralph Waldo Emerson, Charles Darwin, Elizabeth Barrett Br... See more
Maria Popova • Figuring
Plants and gardens are an important, and often undervalued, gateway drug. Wonderground is a place of storytelling; of irreverence, intelligence, curiosity and connection. It draws equally from culture and horticulture, art and science, beauty and botany. It’s a garden, though it’s taken me a while to see this.
Wonderground • Audacious Gardening: On Daring to Care
Gardening like this involves having an intimate relationship with nature. No college degree is necessary; in fact, for this type of garden it is probably a waste of time, as formal schooling may actually block your ability to hear the subtle voices of the land.
Mary Reynolds • The Garden Awakening: Designs to nurture our land and ourselves
The plants can tell us her story; we need to learn to listen.
Robin Wall Kimmerer • Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants
The Hidden Life of Trees: What They Feel, How They Communicate―Discoveries from A Secret World (The Mysteries of Nature, 1)
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