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Field of zinnias at the strawberry farm yesterday. 🌺 #beautybreak

“liam spent it preparing for spring”

I would use this around earth day and talk with students about how to make our earth better.

I personally love the way this book is set up because it moves the words and puts them around the images as well as turning the words into images. the photos show depth and detail and take up the whole page. I love the colors and brightness. 2009 Peter Brown

I‘ve always had a fondness of wild, unkept English gardens with stone walls. There are some beautiful passages in this book about the human condition that are expressed in the language of wild, growing things. The main character leaves a hollowing London and finds herself in such a garden, tasked with growing food for wartime. The garden meets her with mystery surprise, and ghosts, leading her to go deeper into her relationship with the ⬇️

Sometimes our passion is our ruin. The thing with roses is that they were just too unmanageable for Ellen Willmott—indeed, for any single person—to pin down and categorize, to fix on the page. They kept fluctuating, changing their names and associations, refusing to lie still. The roses kept growing, even on paper. They were a living language. And Ellen Willmott couldn‘t hope to contain them. What I love about The Genus Rosa is that it⬇️