Shows how rewarding our green inheritance is - before it is too late and we destroy our life-support system Highlights a deepening concern about the destruction that threatens our plant heritage Demonstrates the wonder and worth of plants and their great importance and potential - plants provide us with power - food, energy, medication and oxygen levels Explains why our plants cannot take any more punishment and how those that remain can be saved Actively campaigns the need to halt the devastation on our plant system and subsequently the animal kingdom
This kind of book is the kind that I loved growing up and easily makes a companion to a first year university botany class. It's straight forward, has good watercolor and ink illustrations, and surveys the plant world and its interactions with the human world.