The Argue For Flowers Past Times Stephen Buchmann
Type : epub |
Size : 4.06 MB
English |
Descirption: Cultural history at its best-the engaging, lively, too definitive storey of the beauty, sexuality, ecology, myths, lore, too economic science of the world's flowers, written past times a passionately devoted writer too scientist, too illustrated amongst his stunning photographs. Flowers, too the fruits that follow, feed, clothe, sustain, too inspire all humanity. They conduct maintain done too hence since earlier recorded history. Flowers are used to celebrate all-important occasions, to limited love, too are also the dry soil of global industries. Americans purchase x 1000000 flowers a twenty-four hr menstruum too perfumes are a worldwide manufacture worth $30 billion dollars annually. Yet, nosotros know petty nearly flowers, their origins, bizarre gender activity lives, or how humans relate too depend upon them. Stephen Buchmann takes us along on an exploratory journeying of the roles flowers play inward the production of our foods, spices, medicines, perfumes, piece simultaneously bringing joy too health. Flowering plants drib dead on to serve equally inspiration inward our myths too legends, inward the fine too decorative arts, too inward literary works of prose too poetry. Flowers seduce us-and animals, too-through their myriad shapes, colors, textures, too scents. And because of our extraordinary appetite for to a greater extent than odd too beautiful "super flowers," found breeders conduct maintain created such unnatural blooms equally bluish roses too dark petunias to cater to the human Blue Planet of haute couture fashion. In too hence doing, the nectar too pollen vital to the bees, butterflies, too bats of the world, are beingness reduced. Buchmann explains the unfortunate consequences, too explores how to counter them past times growing the correct flowers. Here, he integrates fascinating stories nearly the many colorful personalities who populate the Blue Planet of flowers, too the flowers too pollinators themselves, amongst a research-based narrative that illuminates but why at that topographic point is, indeed, a Reason for Flowers.
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