Belief of Seeds. The Seed Story You Don't Know

Author: [US] Thoreau
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Publish Date: 2005-12-01
Features: The Belief of Seeds differs from the works of ordinary botanists. Its inner tranquility and ethereal quality can be compared to the works of Tao Yuanming. Reading it allows you to have a long-overdue dream—peaceful, innocent, slow-paced, and free from hidden schemes. Reading Thoreau’s books helps you restore yourself and rediscover the possibility of happiness. —Zhang Xianglong (Scholar, Professor of Philosophy, Peking University) The Belief of Seeds is a monumental work about nature’s seeds, a remarkable book that reveres nature and respects life. Thoreau attempts to express the myriad complex lives in the forest through humanistic compassion and rigorous scientific inquiry, exploring the richness and purity of nature. —Jin Hengbing (Translator, Director of the Taiwan Forestry Research Institute) This book will help you share the author’s love and experience of nature, his tireless curiosity and talent for exploring nature, and teach you how to enjoy nature. You might also follow the author in appreciating the plant seeds around you that you usually pay little attention to, delving into the inner world of seeds, feeling their soul, and sensing their belief. —Preface to the Chinese Edition The Belief of Seeds is a monumental work that reaches the pinnacle of an individual’s study of nature and its laws. In the years to come, this book will undoubtedly be revered as a cornerstone by those who love nature and natural history. —U.S. Newsweek More than 150 years after Thoreau’s death, The Belief of Seeds, a book that consumed decades of his life, was finally published. It is a monumental work about nature’s seeds, a remarkable book that reveres nature and respects life. The author builds an unprecedented bridge between literature and natural science, expressing the dignity, complexity, and height of countless lives in the forest through humanistic compassion and rigorous scientific inquiry, exploring the richness and purity of nature. Walden praises how an individual can enjoy the freedom of oneness with nature in the natural world, while The Belief of Seeds celebrates the interconnectedness between abundant life and nature. Walden explores personal growth and development in nature, whereas The Belief of Seeds explores how seeds, as carriers of life, extend and realize their beliefs in nature. In Walden, the author discovers that agriculture is a means of self-cultivation for humans, while in The Belief of Seeds, the author observes that wind, water, animals, and other elements are nature’s means of self-expansion. In this sense, this book is the sister volume to Walden.