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Braiding Sweetgrass | Robin Wall Kimmerer

#sweetgrass #nature #wisdom #botany #colortheory #purple #orange #yellow #gold #indigenous #knowledge

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TheBookHippie

Brother Gardeners: Botany, Empire and the Birth of an Obession | Andrea Wulf

#naturalitsy read

I just loved this.

I also found the authors website and added a ton of oh I must read that …https://www.andreawulf.com/andrea-wulf/about-the-brother-gardeners.html

AllDebooks

AllDebooks Oh my 😍 2mo

Chrissyreadit so i thought it was slow- should i keep going? 2mo

TheBookHippie @Chrissyreadit I loved the pictures too. I dunno I‘m fascinated with the backstory and how plants got where 👩🏻‍🌾🪴 I did read a little everyday -maybe that‘s the key. 2mo

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jlhammar

Brother Gardeners: Botany, Empire and the Birth of an Obession | Andrea Wulf

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So interesting! Extensively researched and very readable. #NaturaLitsy

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AllDebooks

The Brother Gardeners: Botany, Empire, and the Birth of an Obsession | Andrea Wulf

#Naturalitsy

Hi all, I've missed our weekly chats!

Here's the discussion thread for February's #buddyread for you to share your thoughts.
I really hope you enjoyed it. I still have the last section to go, so I will catch up over the next few days.
All welcome to join in the discussion.

AllDebooks Next up - March #buddyread https://litsy.com/p/U1NvY1VlRkY4

The Three Ages of Water: Prehistoric Past, Imperiled Present, and a Hope for the Future

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Cuilin For a book that could have been dry, I found it exciting, compelling and informative. I loved it! I will be reading more by this author. I loved the relationships, the petty arguments by letter, the voyages, even Cpt Blythe showed up. The casual racism, slavery, and Imperialism though of its time was still frustrating. Overall well written. 2mo

TheBookHippie I love it. Almost done reading. 2mo

jlhammar Enlightening read! Really enjoyed. In Part I, I thought it was so interesting (and kind of funny from a modern day perspective) that Fairchild felt the need to attribute his hybrid to accident. And the uproar over and resistance to the Linneaus classification system, “inadequate because the sexual organs of plants were 'mere geewgaws'“ was also fascinating (and amusing 😆). 2mo

jlhammar This bit from Part 2 made me chuckle “His worst insult he saved for the hated Siegesbeck, who, as punishment for having so relentlessly criticised Linnaeus's sexual system, will be forever remembered in Siegesbeckia, a stinking weed that thrives in wasteland.“ 2mo

jlhammar Lots of disturbing behavior in Part 3 such as Banks and Solander taking Tupia, a Tahitian priest, back to England to “keep him as a curiosity.“ I liked how Banks gave his wife a brooch of dried moss and she was less than enthusiastic 😆 “fool that she likes diamonds better.“ 2mo

Bookwormjillk I spend a lot of time removing invasive plants and re-planting with native species, so I had had to chuckle at the topic of this book. I enjoyed it although I got all of the people confused. 2mo

yourfavouritemixtape I liked it a lot. It was very interesting and very entertaining to read. I also thought Fairchild‘s problem with his hybrid was fascinating. As well as Linneaus‘ story. 2mo

AllDebooks I'm so glad you enjoyed it @Cuilin @TheBookHippie @jlhammar @Bookwormjillk @yourfavouritemixtape 2mo

AllDebooks It was a completely unexpected read. I, too, thought it might be a bit dry and stuffy @Cuilin But Wulf has done a fantastic job at tracing these mens lives from the UK, Europe and the States. I was fascinated by the petty squabbles and felt for Bartram. He really was taken advantage before the subscription boxes started. 2mo

AllDebooks Who knew Linnaeus was such as ass? 🤔 2mo

AllDebooks I was quite surprised that a number of species I thought were native to UK are in fact, from the Americas. 2mo

Cuilin @AllDebooks I wondered if the author regretted naming her daughter Linnea. 2mo

Cuilin @jlhammar 🤣🤣🤣 2mo

AllDebooks @Cuilin 😅 2mo

TheBookHippie @AllDebooks I had this same thought when watching a Catherine The Great documentary about her gardens. She grew food from the Americas to prevent famine but also flowers. One never thinks of things like that or I guess I didn‘t. 2mo

CatLass007 @AllDebooks Please add me to the tag list for #NaturaLitsy. I‘ll join you in March.

The Three Ages of Water: Prehistoric Past, Imperiled Present, and a Hope for the Future

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AllDebooks @CatLass007 Great, welcome 😊 2mo

CatLass007 Thank you! 2mo

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yourfavouritemixtape

The Brother Gardeners: Botany, Empire, and the Birth of an Obsession | Andrea Wulf

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My first #Naturalitsy read this year and oh, it was fascinating! Loved all the history and the facts. There‘s so much you just take for granted and never really ask yourself how it got here in the first place. It also I am itching to finally go outside and start planting but I have to wait another month…

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AllDebooks

Brother Gardeners: Botany, Empire and the Birth of an Obession | Andrea Wulf

#Naturalitsy

I hope you're enjoying this month's #buddyread

As we're reading each part over 10ish days, I'm going to post a discussion thread at the end of the month, Saturday 25th. I'll tag all in that post.

Have a great weekend 😀
Debs x

Bookwormjillk Sounds good! 2mo

vonnie862 Sounds good! I barely started with this read. 2mo

kspenmoll Thanks! 2mo

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AllDebooks

Brother Gardeners: Botany, Empire and the Birth of an Obession | Andrea Wulf

I was so relaxed during #hyggehour that I fell asleep 😴😅
@Chrissyreadit @TheBookHippie

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AnnCrystal 😂💤💝. 3mo

DebinHawaii Nothing wrong with that! 💚 3mo

AllDebooks @DebinHawaii 😊 3mo

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Robotswithpersonality

The Tree: A Natural History of What Trees Are, How They Live, and Why They Matter | Colin Tudge

so-so

Not sure this book knew what it wanted to be.
It succeeded at being a book about trees written by a zoologist who seems just as happy to talk about other living things.
First part does have tree history, right back through evolution, but it does seem to get snagged up in the greater story of the evolution of life.
The second part has at least as many mentions of beings in Orders that are not trees, as trees themselves. 1/?

Robotswithpersonality 2/? Also wasn't really expecting the frequent listing of all the uses that humans put the various tree parts to, apparently there are lots and lots of different timber with different colours and patterns. This makes a bit more sense linked to the point made in the last chapter about a tree-based economy, but it's a long time between evidence and argument. 3mo

Robotswithpersonality 3/? First and second parts could be a reference guide, if colour photos were added.
I think I'd excerpt into a separate paper the many mentions/discussions of the recategorization and renaming of various levels of trees and tree families (order, genus, etc), because it comes up a lot, and isn't necessarily helpful in keeping straight what a tree is, or how it relates to other trees.
I just needed a one time disclaimer that 'this may be out of date in five years and won't match up with older sources based on the ongoing science.' 3mo

Robotswithpersonality 4/? The author seems happy to list encounters with various trees, pleasant and unpleasant, which I think would have been suited better to a brief memoir of his traveling and encountering various trees in various parts of the world; I would have loved to read it. 3mo

Robotswithpersonality 5/6 Probably written with the understanding that people may dip in and out of the book, but it makes a fun fact less fun when I kept encountering them in duplicate.
I think part three was mostly what I thought this book would be, but even it reflects the problems listed above. 3mo

Robotswithpersonality 6/6 I will always be grateful for works written by scientists with last chapters that end with hopes, with suggestions for the future, but I'd rather it not be the only bright spot in a long DRY spell. 3mo

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Robotswithpersonality

The Tree: A Natural History of What Trees Are, How They Live, and Why They Matter | Colin Tudge