“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 would use this around earth day and talk with students about how to make our earth better.
so-soI 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
The thing about gardens is that everyone thinks they go on growing, that in winter they sleep and in spring they rise. But it‘s more that they die and return, die and return. They lose themselves. They haunt themselves. Every story is a story about death. But perhaps, if we are lucky, our story about death is also a story about love. And this is what I have remembered of love.
The language of roses shifts like sand under our feet. It blows in and out like the wind. It carries the fragrance of the flower and then it is gone. Rugosa. Canina. Arvensis. It is how we learn to speak about something that is disappearing as we say its name. It is a trick, a false comfort. Humilis. It is what we think we need to know and how we think it needs to be known. Involuta. It is where we want to go, this name, and stay⬇️
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⬇️
