Close to the plants

Author: Qi Yunzhi
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Publish Date: 2005-08-01
Features: This book selects 100 common plants from the Xi'an Botanical Garden and introduces them in simple, easy-to-understand, and lively language. It combines cultural knowledge such as human customs, related poems, and traditional legends to comprehensively present popular science knowledge about plants with high scientific value and strong interest. It integrates the concept of sustainable development, as well as knowledge about environmental protection and ecological balance maintenance, to help readers establish a "green ethics" mindset. Additionally, it incorporates environmental education and patriotism education, which is an excellent educational approach. Especially, the author uses clever comic language, making the book more humorous and vivid, with strong appeal and persuasion. More importantly, the plants described in the book can all be found in the Xi'an Botanical Garden, allowing readers to experience them at close range—smelling, touching, and feeling them. This is also the reason for the book's title, "Zero Distance with Plants." This book is sure to be popular among young readers and will also serve as an engaging popular science read for cadres, urban and rural residents. The publication of this book not only helps us better understand the plants in it but also makes us cherish the plants around us more, leading us to value the natural world we depend on.