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Herbs and the Earth : an Evocative Excursion Into the Lore & Legend of Our Common Herbs by Henry Beston; Roger B. Swain is a biography available to read on EtoBox.

What is Herbs and the Earth : an Evocative Excursion Into the Lore & Legend of Our Common Herbs about?

**Lavender, basil, hyssop, balm, sage, rue ― the thinking gardener’s guide to herbs.** Writer/naturalist Henry Beston, a founding father of the environmental movement, believed that a strong connection to nature is essential. “It is only when we are aware of the earth and of the earth as poetry that we truly live,” Beston says in his now-classic **__Herbs and the Earth__**. In this book, Beston shares one of those connections as seen through the oldest group of plants known to gardeners. “A garden of herbs,” he writes, “is a garden of things loved for themselves in their wholeness and integrity. It is not a garden of flowers, but a garden of plants which are sometimes very lovely flowers and are always more than flowers.” Whether you are already a committed herbalist or just dreaming of planting your first small garden, this book is a powerfully rich source of inspiration and information. As Roger B. Swain observes in his moving introduction, **__Herbs and the Earth__** has an intensity that evokes the herbs themselves, as if, pressed between the pages, their aroma has seeped into the pages.

Who reads Herbs and the Earth : an Evocative Excursion Into the Lore & Legend of Our Common Herbs?

Author

Henry Beston; Roger B. Swain

Publisher

David R. Godine, Publisher

Published

2002

Language

EN

ISBN

9781567921885

Category

biography

Subjects

Agriculture, Science, Memoir

Rating

4.23 / 5 (27 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-13