#botany literature

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Book Review: “The Big Bad Book Of Botany” by Michael Largo

I absolutely LOVE this book. I’ve read so many different botany books and plant books, but it seems like they’re always divided into two types of books: Plant folklore, or scientific plant info.

This book is groundbreaking on multiple levels, but the main reason is that it’s an excellent resource for both botanical folklore, AND the science of the plant. It includes full black and white illustrations of each and every plant it mentions, as well as context of historical uses in different cultures, and medicinal uses, and lore. “The Big Bad Book Of Botany” is written with witty observations and is (in my opinion) a surprisingly great resource for Green Witchcraft. It’s not written for witchcraft purposes and yet is very applicable to occult practices. Better than Scott Cunningham’s Encyclopedia of Magical Herbs (in my humble opinion). And this is coming from someone who loves Cunningham’s other book on crystals and metals! I found “The Big Bad Book If Botany” at the library, and immediately realized what a gem it was. It is not on my 22nd Birthday list.

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Botanical book from 1918 🌼

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Sarah Holland-Batt

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Ethel Franklin Betts (American,1880–1956) • Little Johnts's Christmas • Illustration to While the Heart Beats Young by James Whitcomb Riley • Bobbs Merril Co. • 1906

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n70_w1150 by Biodiversity Heritage Library Via Flickr: Floral belles from the green-house and garden /. New York :C. Scribner & Co.,1867.. biodiversitylibrary.org/page/53723484

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Roar, 2022

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These Two Books are Knowledge Extract

Both written by Brian Moss, Ponds and Small Lakes along with Botany for Gardeners are both fantastic books. At this point in time, they are among my favorites in the science genre. Every sentence feels well crafted to convey more knowledge. With that being said they are not written in a manner for everyone. They are extracts of knowledge, so while some might take 500 pages to explain something Ponds and Small Lakes does it in 124.

For some people it's like being able to live off ice cream and for others, it's like having to eat lots of spinach.

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braiding sweetgrass, by robin wall kimmerer: four out of five braids

kimmerer is a potowatomi national who has worked as a educator for many years (she was SUNY's Distinguished Teaching Professor of environmental biology at the time of braiding sweetgrass). her book is a kind of guide to and impassioned plea for reintegrating with nature.

kimmerer's book comes from the perspective of a descendant of the first peoples still grappling with colonization. she describes acting as the guide and almost interlocutor for nature as a teacher of university students for whom her mindset and language are foreign. the reverence and love she bears for the landscape and all its particular peoples glow through the pages. my favorite sequence is when she describes showing her students the epidermis-like layers of the forest floor. there is also practical knowledge: i wouldn't use braiding sweetgrass as a survival guide, but it has some details that you might want to scribble in yours.

certain chapters share her thoughts on colonization and the question of whether it's possible for the settler civilization to integrate with the land in a healthy way. these are certainly worth reading, although i will note that not all first nations people share her views. i recommend this book not only for the thoughtful essays, however, but also for the level of beauty that she communicates through the written word.