Relevant Links
Artistic Sources
www.botanicus.org – an incredible website hosting a scanned library of botanical books dating back to the 1400s
Art Links
www.vam.ac.uk – Victoria and Albert Museum, London. A celebration of objects
www.internationalfolkart.org – Santa Fe’s magical museum of folk art from around the world
www.musee-moyenage.fr – Paris’ Cluny Museum. A special place and Paris’ most underpublicized cultural treasure
www.deyrolle.fr – the most amazing and strangest shop in Paris featuring taxidermy masterpieces
http://royalbcmuseum.bc.ca/ – Royal British Columbia Museum – take two days for this one, it never ends. Inserts you into different worlds like no other museum I have ever been to.
www.mingei.org – Mingei International Museum – a San Diego treasure
www.kew.org – Royal Gardens at Kew – London’s amazing Victorian glass palaces filled with amazing plants
http://www.operaduomo.siena.it/eng/index.htm – my most favorite cathedral in the world (in Sienna, Italy) – look at the floor
https://www.rijksmuseum.nl/en – Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam (Rembrandt and Vermeer)
Northwest Art Links
www.23sandy.com – Laura Russell’s wonderful gallery focusing on artist made books
Elizabeth Leach Gallery – www.elizabethleach.com
Russo Lee Gallery –www.russoleegallery.com
Augen Gallery – www.augengallery.com
Charles Froelick Gallery – www.froelickgallery.com
Pacific Northwest College of Art – www.pnca.edu
Inspirational Links
Powell’s Books – www.powells.com
Daedalus Books – 2074 NW Flanders, Portland
The Tezeta Band – www.tezetaband.com
www.theintertwine.org – The Intertwine Alliance
Favorite Books
Non-Fiction:
A Place of One’s Own, Michael Pollan
Botany of Desire, Michael Pollan
Hortus Eystettensis, Basilius Besler
The Collector, Jack Nisbet
The Snoring Bird, Bernd Heinrich
A More Beautiful Question, Warren Berger
Big Magic, Elizabeth Gilbert
Wild in the City, Mike Houck and MJ Cody
Silva of North America, Charles Sprague Sargent
Humboldt’s Cosmos, Gerard Helferich
Seeing is Forgetting the Name of the Thing One Sees, Robert Irwin
Holdfast, Kathleen Dean Moore
Refuge, Terry Tempest Williams
Ways of Seeing, John Berger
The Book, Alan Watts
Desert Solitaire, Edward Abbey
Blink, Malcolm Gladwell
The Age of Wonder, Richard Holmes
Down the Great Unknown, Edward Dolnick
The Brother Gardeners, Andrea Wulf
Fiction:
Raise High the Roof Beam Carpenters, J.D. Salinger
Seymour, An Introduction, J.D. Salinger
Catcher in the Rye, J.D. Salinger
Nine Stories, J.D. Salinger
Dancing at the Rascal Fair, Ivan Doig
The Brothers K, James David Duncan
I Know This Much is True, Wally Lamb
A Signature of All Things, Elizabeth Gilbert
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay, Michael Chabon
Marten Martin, Brian Doyle
Mink River, Brian Doyle