The First Book of Plants by Alice Dickinson Binding:Paperback Drawn to Nature comprises excerpts

Drawn to Nature comprises excerpts from 25 years of Leslie's journals devoted to observing and recording the natural world in words

You Nest Here with Me

CHRISTINA ROSSETI Mother Shake the Cherry-Tree

-- Noelle Johnson

The First Book of Plants by Alice Dickinson Binding:Paperback Drawn to Nature comprises excerptsPlants grow almost everywhere in the world around us in all sizes and shapes. Some are so small that they can be seen only with a microscope. Others, like the redwood trees of California, tower high in the sky. Plants grow not only in well watered soil, but in oceans, rivers, lakes and swamps, in deserts, on rocks, far above the ground on branches of trees, on old pieces of wood, even on such unlikely things as crusts of bread, old shoes, or on top of