A Passion for Trees: The Legacy of John Evelyn

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There can be no better place to begin a celebration of our trees than with John Evelyn. This luminary of the seventeenth century was not only one of the founders of The Royal Society, gardener, diarist and royal adviser, but he was also the author of a number of exceptional horticultural works. The greatest of these is Sylva: a Discourse of Forest Trees, published in 1664. The product of the nation's urgent need for more timber, Sylva is also among the first books in English to show an appreciation of the decorative value of trees and the benefits of planting trees to shape the landscape.

Maggie Campbell-Culver's book might be described as a stroll through the woods in the company of the great man, as between them they give us portraits of over thirty of our best-loved trees, their peculiar characteristics, history and uses. Evelyn's work speaks to us as much now as it did to his contemporaries; as his influence echoes down the centuries, he emerges as a precursor of the present-day environmental movement. While the practical and aesthetic uses of trees may have altered a little, our need to appreciate our trees and to preserve and manage our woodlands remains as crucial now as ever.

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IN TREE IS SOUL OF LIFE
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A MOST EXCELLENT HUMOURED MAN
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THE DAWNING OF CONSERVATION
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著者について (2006)

Maggie Campbell-Culver is an editor of the new edition of The Oxford Companion to Gardens and writes regularly for the Eden Friends Magazine, Historic Garden Review, the Saturday Telegraph and NCCPG Journal. She has been a member of the Garden History Society for twenty years and of the National Council for the Conservation of Plants and Gardens since its inception. She managed the running and restoration of Mount Edgcumbe, the Grade 1 Historic Garden overlooking Plymouth Sound. She was a founder member of the Garden Trust Movement and Vice-chairman of the Cornwall Gardens Trust. She was elected a Fellow of the Linnean Society in 2001. Maggie danced as a teenager with the Ballet Rambert, then studied garden history and worked on the excavation of Fishbourne Roman Palace in Sussex before moving to Cornwall and self-sufficiency in 1974. While living near Bodmin she was heavily involved with the Wadebridge Bookshop. She now lives in Brittany with her husband Michael.

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書籍名A Passion for Trees: The Legacy of John Evelyn
Eden Project books
著者Maggie Campbell-Culver
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出版社Eden Project Books, 2006
書籍の提供元ミシガン大学
デジタル化された日2008年5月23日
ISBN1903919479, 9781903919477
ページ数282 ページ
  
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