Pietro Visconte’s World Map 1321, from Marino Samuolo’s Liber secretorum fidelium crucis
There is nothing to save, now all is lost,
but a tiny core of stillness in the heart
like the eye of a violet.
D.H. Lawrence
Nothing To Save
Secret Gardener
“Art is the attention we pay to the wholeness of the world.” Guy Davenport
John Thornton 17th century
When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the universe – John Muir
Moses Harris 1782
What Plants Perceive
Alexander Marshal, 162?-1682
people have lost their connexion with the earth; they hang, as it were, in the air–
‘It is impossible to measure what we see not’
root section from 'An Idea of a Phytological History Propounded, Together with a Continuation of the Anatomy of Vegetables, Particularly Prosecuted upon Roots', Nehemiah Grew (1641-1712)
Albrecht Dürer (1471 – 1528) “mein Buchlein”
swearing allegiance to the particulars of the world
Jacopo Ligozzi 1547–1627
Václav Hollar (1607 – 1677) after Giulio Romano (Italian, Rome 1499?–1546 Mantua)
Julius Schnorr von Carolsfeld (1794 – 1872)
![Václav Hollar (Czech pronunciation: [ˈvaːtslav ˈɦolar]), known in England as Wenceslaus or Wenceslas and in Germany as Wenzel Hollar (13 July 1607 – 25 March 1677),](https://secretgardening.files.wordpress.com/2012/08/wenceslas_hollar_-_charonia_variegata_lam_1.jpg?w=177)
Václav Hollar (13 July 1607 – 25 March 1677)
“You were made and set here to give voice to this, your astonishment”
Peter Paul Rubens 1577 – 1640
Jacques le Moyne de Morgues (c. 1533–1588)
Scarlet he thought the most beautiful of all colours
François II roi de France. Francois Clouet (1510 - 1572)
Albrecht Durer, Linden on a Bastion, c. 1489
Antonio del Pollaiolo (1429/1433 – 1498), Apollo and Daphne
Johann Wilhelm Preyer (1803–1889)
Carducius Plantagenet Ream 1837 - 1917
Thomas Cowperthwait Eakins (July 25, 1844 – June 25, 1916)
QUINCE - Jacques le Moyne de Morgues (c. 1533–1588)
Mira calligraphiae, Joris Hoefnagel (1542 - 1601)
Albrecht Dürer 1526 / AD
we are “at precisely that moment in our history when we fear that our very lives may depend upon how well we understand nature and our own responsibilities and limits within it.”
Brontosaurus, sketch by Othniel Charles Marsh (1831 – 1899), paleontologist
Recording the Sounds of Their Own Destruction.
Archibald James Campbell 1853-1929. Silver gelatin print.
Hearing the Grass Grow
Gerbil, Jacopo Ligozzi (1547–1627)
Ibn Bakhtīshū˓, (d. 1058)
Charles Plumier (1646 – 1704)
JC Keller, hand drawing, 1791-1802
Jacopo Ligozzi, 1547–1627
