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Méditations végétales et pensées minérales
Nicolas Tournadre

This book is an ode to the splendor of the world of plants and minerals. It opens our minds to nature, projecting us to the heart of a delicate flower, a rock crystal, a knotty old tree trunk, or a windswept hill.

Poetry imposed itself quite naturally as the vector for transmitting the intimacy of our relationship to the environment around us. The excerpts chosen, drawn from a wide range of cultures –?Chinese, Tibetan, Persian, Russian, Spanish, French and more– remind us to what extent we all, whatever country or era we are from, share the same sense of awe and amazement for nature. To highlight the diversity of points of view, the poetry excerpts have been published first in the language in which they were written, and are followed by the translation. The play of alphabets and languages alone is like an invitation on a marvelous journey…

The poetical evocations are intertwined with texts with a more scientific bent, which address many topics, including photosynthesis, fecundation, co-evolution strategies and plants’ capacities for adaptation to sometimes extreme conditions, and the role of seeds and fruits.

The book also includes 30 splendid illustrations – photographs, calligraphies, and more.

In a unique and highly personal approach, the author brings together two inter-related points of view on the beauty of the plant and mineral worlds: the poet’s and the scientist’s. Above and beyond the tribute, this is actually a spiritual quest in which concern for nature’s fragility yields to faith in humans’ capacity to preserve it.

Méditations végétales et pensées minérales -
  • Buchet/Chastel
  • Écologie
  • Publication date : 12/10/2017
  • Size : 18,5 x 26 cm, 128 p., 29,00 EUR €
  • ISBN 978-2-283-03074-5
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