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From cacao to clitoria – luscious 19th-century botanical illustrations of the most vibrant flora of the Americas; or, how the world relished the world before Instagram https://t.co/hy5sSCHLSb
The Soul of an Octopus – how one of Earth's most alien creatures illuminates the wonders of consciousness: https://t.co/Wf8x0meBAK #CephalopodWeek
A rose is a rose is a revolution... Sarah Mapps Douglass's flowers – the first surviving art signed by an African-American woman https://t.co/Gkqe4EYw4N
As we gear up and gladden up for #EarthDay, here are some stunning drawings of nature's most neglected botanical beauties from a book about sea plants by the self-taught Victorian marine biologist Margaret Gatty https://t.co/QNVNy3TLoJ
What could be a lovelier way to welcome #NationalPoetryMonth than with one of the most soul-broadening poems ever written, Naomi Shihab Nye's "Kindness," animated? https://t.co/hW000V05wI
On the first day of spring, "The Moral of Flowers" – an illustrated Victorian encyclopedia of poetic lessons from the garden by the poet and painter Rebecca Hey https://t.co/Z2PIoXBCDK
On Anaïs Nin's birthday, "Literary Witches" – an illustrated celebration of women writers who have enchanted and transfigured our world: https://t.co/mYH9CWGzFA
On Edgar Allan Poe's birthday, French artist Benjamin Lacombe's haunting illustrations for his "Tales of the Macabre" https://t.co/yHlmkXUsXp
My favorite thing in a long time: If You Come to Earth — a tender illustrated celebration of the many ways to be human and what makes our rocky planet a miraculous world https://t.co/OAFrw5N4cs
This is my favorite thing in a long time: If You Come to Earth — a tender illustrated celebration of the many ways to be human and what makes our rocky planet a miraculous world, from the inimitable @SophieBlackall https://t.co/OAFrw5N4cs