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Botanical Painting - Long Queues at Kew?
By Marianne McPhie


It is an astonishing fact that if you had been born in Europe during the 16th century, the size of your known world would have doubled. Just imagine: within your lifetime you would have had twice your horizons to explore, to exploit, to explain. The great voyages of discovery, driven by maritime prowess and the relentless pursuit of profit, were also monuments to fearless eccentricity, botanical and geological curiosity, and the indomitable amateur spirit.

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Subject: Thanks for posting

This is a really interesting article, thanks for posting. There are such a lot of wildlife photographers around, it's a change to read about somebody taking another approach.

Comment provided September 6, 2009 at 11:23 pm

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