Donald Culross Peattie 
Flowering Earth 

Flowering Earth is an extraordinary work in which Peattie explores the origin and significance of plant life with an unmatched sense of astonishment and reflection. According to The New York Times, his prose in Flowering Earth is pervaded by a continuous sense of beauty and illuminative insight, ” and Books hails it as a piece for people who are refreshed by any sort of emancipation from the trivial”