Botany

The scientific study of plants.

The Botany of Desire: A Plant's-Eye View of the World
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
Botany in a Day: The Patterns Method of Plant Identification
The Signature of All Things
Wicked Plants: The Weed That Killed Lincoln's Mother and Other Botanical Atrocities
Gathering Moss: A Natural and Cultural History of Mosses
The Drunken Botanist: The Plants That Create the World's Great Drinks
Botany for Gardeners
Lab Girl
Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds & Shape Our Futures
The Light Eaters: How the Unseen World of Plant Intelligence Offers a New Understanding of Life on Earth
The Triumph of Seeds: How Grains, Nuts, Kernels, Pulses, and Pips Conquered the Plant Kingdom and Shaped Human History
What a Plant Knows: A Field Guide to the Senses
Plant Identification Terminology: An Illustrated Glossary
The Language of Flowers by Odessa BegayFloriography by Jessica RouxA Victorian Flower Dictionary by Mandy KirkbyFloriography by Sally CoulthardWildflower Folklore by Laura C. Martin
Language of Flowers
12 books — 9 voters

Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall KimmererWicked Plants by Amy  StewartIn the Shadow of Slavery by Judith A. CarneyGinseng Dreams by Kristin JohannsenPapyrus by John Gaudet
Ethnobotany
51 books — 13 voters

DMT by Rick StrassmanThe Cosmic Serpent by Jeremy NarbyTao Te Ching by Lao TzuLife Revisited by Laurent  GrenierThe Secret Life of Plants by Peter Tompkins
Curious Minds
182 books — 155 voters

A leaf, large and rough, a thorny stalk, blue flower. I borage bring courage. Than a saw-toothed leaf. Lemon balm. Soothe all troublesome care. Marigold---cureth the trembling of harte. Perhaps their medicine will cross through the cell walls of my drawing hand. The plants grow into a schematic, a garden, geometrically arranged. I consult the crackly herbals by my bed. Chamomile, catmint, sorrel. In Latin: Matricaria chamomilla, Nepeta X faassenii, Rumex acetosa. I get out of bed, retrieve my co ...more
Virginia Hartman, The Marsh Queen

Jane Goodall
It was as though the plants wanted me to write a different kind of book and sent gentle roots deep into my brain. They wanted me to fully acknowledge their importance in human history, their amazing powers of healing, the nourishment they provide, their ability to harm if we misused them, and, ultimately, our dependence on the plant kingdom. The plants seemed to want me to share with the world my own understanding of their beingness, so that people might better honor them as important partners i ...more
Jane Goodall, Seeds of Hope: Wisdom and Wonder from the World of Plants

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