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The Reason for Flowers

Their History, Culture, Biology, and How They Change Our Lives

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The Reason for Flowers

By: Stephen Buchmann
Narrated by: Jonathan Yen
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About this listen

Flowers, and the fruits that follow, feed, clothe, sustain, and inspire all humanity. Flowers are used to celebrate all-important occasions, to express love, and are also the basis of global industries. Americans buy 10 million flowers a day, and perfumes are a worldwide industry worth $30 billion annually. Stephen Buchmann takes us along on an exploratory journey of the roles flowers play in the production of our foods, spices, medicines, and perfumes while simultaneously bringing joy and health.

Flowering plants continue to serve as inspiration in our myths and legends, in the fine and decorative arts, and in literary works of prose and poetry. Flowers seduce us - and animals, too - through their myriad shapes, colors, textures, and scents. Here he integrates fascinating stories about the many colorful personalities who populate the world of flowers and the flowers and pollinators themselves with a research-based narrative that illuminates just why there is, indeed, a Reason for Flowers.

©2015 Stephen Buchmann (P)2015 Tantor Biological Sciences Botany & Plants Ecology Gardening & Horticulture Nature & Ecology Outdoors & Nature Science Gardening Natural History Africa Ancient History

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Critic reviews

"Stephen Buchmann is a gifted storyteller and an inquisitive scientist who is intrigued by the dazzling and intricate world of flowers." (Amy Stewart, author of The Flower Confidential)
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was expecting plant biology. none what so ever. very disappointed. forced myself to listen. helped me to sleep.

boring.

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