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MARY DELANY—aristocrat, gardener, prodigious letter-writer, woman of fashion and friend to George Frideric Handel, Jonathan Swift and King George III, died childless more than 220 years ago. Yet she left a multitude of vivid, vital offspring: 985 botanically accurate and startlingly beautiful portraits of flowers in bloom, collectively known as the “Flora Delanica”.

Delany started this project as a widow in her eighth decade. Despite grief, ageing hands and eventually failing eyesight, she invented a new method for creating her flower “mosaicks”: collaging layers of cut, painted paper onto a dense black background, matching her materials to the papery fineness of a flower’s petal. In Molly Peacock’s illustrated biography, the results leap out of the darkness of the past, pulsating with life....The Economist

Color Wheel

Gardener's Color Wheel helps you create exciting color combinations for your garden and helps you understand harmonizing and contrasting color relationships.

Becoming Animal

David Abram is unique among interpreters of the wild voice within us. His first book, The Spell of the Sensuous, has become a touchstone for a needed shift in our thinking about the place of humans in the world. As the poet Gary Snyder remarked, that book helped map us back into the world. In his new book, Becoming Animal, Abram offers a startling new exploration of our entanglement with the rest of nature. This time, his focus is the intimate but sadly forgotten relationship between our bodies and the earth. By excavating the most ordinary and familiar of our experiences--the perception of shadow, the recognition of depth, the transience of mood--he re-opens for us the knowing that our bodies are intertwined with the flesh of the earth. I cannot imagine another book that so gently and so persuasively alters how we look at ourselves, and reminds us that sentience was never our private possession, that our very awareness is a means of participating in a more than human world. At no other time in Western history have we needed to listen to the wild voice within us, and to Dave Abram's, as much as we do today. Kindle Edition