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godzilla-reads · 7 months
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Starting off strong with Nathaniel Hawthorne’s “Rappaccini’s Daughter”, a tale of a poisonous love and a cunning scientist.
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cozy-compendium · 7 months
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Book Review: “The Big Bad Book Of Botany” by Michael Largo
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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.
-Velvet Rose 🌹
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mannlibrary · 2 years
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First Studies of Plant Life. George Francis Atkinson. 1901. https://newcatalog.library.cornell.edu/catalog/6803369
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lacysbookshelf · 1 year
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🌻🍃𝕋𝕙𝕖 𝕊𝕖𝕔𝕣𝕖𝕥 𝕃𝕚𝕗𝕖 𝕠𝕗 ℙ𝕝𝕒𝕟𝕥𝕤🍃🌻
- ℙ𝕖𝕥𝕖𝕣 𝕋𝕠𝕞𝕡𝕜𝕚𝕟𝕤 & ℂ𝕙𝕣𝕚𝕤𝕥𝕠𝕡𝕙𝕖𝕣 𝔹𝕚𝕣𝕕
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dduane · 7 months
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PSA: *Beware* AI-generated fungi guidebooks!!
…Not a phrase I imagined myself typing today. But, via @heyMAKWA on Twitter:
“i'm not going to link any of them here, for a variety of reasons, but please be aware of what is probably the deadliest AI scam i've ever heard of:
“plant and fungi foraging guide books. the authors are invented, their credentials are invented, and their species IDs will kill you.”
…So PLEASE be careful if you run across anything of this kind.
(ETA: Corrected egregious typo in the title. Apologies, as I was [a] in bed [b] typing hurriedly and one-handed on the iPad, and [c] I think its native keyboard may need recalibration, but also [d] I was upset about what I was having to post, because seriously, WTF?!!)
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happyheidi · 7 months
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𝘴𝘰𝘶𝘳𝘤𝘦
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emeraldlabyrinth · 6 months
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Herbalism and Modern Medicine
Rodale's 21st-Century Herbal by Andrew Weil and Michael J. Balick
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Rodale's 21st-Century Herbal: A Practical Guide for Healthy Living Using Nature's Most Powerful Plants by Michael J. Balick and forwarded by Andrew Weil
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Traveling around the world Balick has spoken with natives, learning how they have been using herbs for centuries. He is also an ethnobotanist, economic botanist, and pharmacognosist. His knowledge and experience in his field can be clearly seen in his writing. Even if you are uninterested in herbalism learning how plants play into modern medicine, along with how some of the herbs we use in everyday life affects us makes this book well worth the read.
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I found this book had a good balance neither being too fluffy nor too heavy, and being laced with many beautiful illustrations and diagrams keeps the flow steady.
End Notes:
If you like plants, history, well-being, or food. You will likely find this book to be an enjoyable read.
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cosmiclovebites · 4 months
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Sext: do you want to go to the book store? I'll buy you an iced coffee and any books you want
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lovehina019 · 1 month
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cafeblossomss · 3 months
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2024 things:
go on more walks at sunset
buy more plants
read as many books as you want
buy as many books as you want
tell the people you love that you love them more often
eat your favorite foods
look at the stars as much as you can
drink more water
pet more kitties
go to a museum or art gallery or planetarium
play in the rain
smile at strangers
get coffee and go thrifting
do kind things for yourself
learn something new
love with reckless abandon
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feyooons · 5 months
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husbands in boxes 📦
sorry guys they got packed separately 🗯
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godzilla-reads · 2 years
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May 7, 2022
I was gifted this beautiful encyclopedia of flowers and the first thing I did was look up some of my favorites: Hyacinth, Dahlia, and Statice 💐
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ur-daily-inspiration · 8 months
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nikswonderland · 10 months
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adventuring through forest spots
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daily-spooky · 6 months
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headspace-hotel · 2 months
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I saw this book entitled "Plants Have So Much to Give Us, All We Have to Do is Ask" by Mary Siisip Genuisz and i thought oh I HAVE to read that. The author is Anishinaabe and the book is all about Anishinaabe teachings of the ways of the plants.
Going from the idiotic, Eurocentric, doomerist colonialism apologia of that "Cambridge companion to the anthropocene" book, to the clarity and reasonableness of THIS book, is giving me whiplash just about.
I read like 130 pages without even realizing, I couldn't stop! What a treasure trove of knowledge of the ways of the plants!
Most of them are not my plants, since it is a different ecosystem entirely (which gives me a really strikingly lonely feeling? I didn't know I had developed such a kinship with my plants!) but the knowledge of symbiosis as permeating all things including humans—similar to what Weeds, Guardians of the Soil called "Nature's Togetherness Law"—is exactly what we need more of, exactly what we need to teach and promote to others, exactly what we need to heal our planet.
She has a lot of really interesting information on how knowledge is created and passed down in cultures that use oral tradition. The stories and teachings she includes are a mix of those directly passed down by her teacher through a very old heritage of knowledge holders, stories with a newer origin, and a couple that have an unknown origin and (I think?) may not even be "authentically" Native American at all, but that she found to be truthful or useful in some way. She likes many "introduced" plants and is fascinated by their stories and how they came here. (She even says that Kudzu would not be invasive if we understood its virtues and used it the way the Chinese always have, which is exactly what I've been saying!!!)
She seems a bit on the chaotic end of the spectrum in regards to tradition, even though she takes tradition very seriously—she says the way the knowledge of medicinal and otherwise useful plants has been built, is that a medicine person's responsibility is not simply to pass along teachings, but to test and elaborate upon the existing ones. It is a lot similar to the scientific method, I would call it a scientific method. Her way of seeing it really made me understand the aliveness of tradition and how there is opportunity, even necessity, for new traditions based upon new ecological relationships and new cultural connections to the land.
I was gut punched on page 15 when she says that we have to be careful to take care of the Earth and all its creatures, because if human civilization destroys the biosphere the rocks and winds will be left all alone to grieve for us.
What a striking contrast to the sad, cruel ideas in the Cambridge companion of the Anthropocene, where humans are some kind of disease upon the Earth that oppresses and "colonizes" everything else...!...The Earth would GRIEVE for us!
We are not separate from every other thing. We have to learn this. If I can pass along these ideas to y'all through my silly little posts, I will have lived well.
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