Welcome
The Land
Telling the story
Big History
A global context
About the author
Index of contents
Sustainability
Sustainability
. . . Population & urbanization
. . . Scale
. . . Growth
. . . Sustainability accounting
Social organisation
. . . Economy
. . . Transport & communication
. . . Technology
Resources
. . . Energy
. . . Food
. . . Water
. . . Materials
. . . Ecosystem Services
Sustainability analysis
. . . Sustainability in history
. . . Ancient Greece
. . . Ancient Rome
. . . Middle Ages
Plants & People
Plants
. . . Classification
. . . . . . Plant classification
. . . . . . Plant knowledge
. . . Plants and People
. . . Energy capture
. . . Plant lore
. . . Greek mythology
. . . Plant domestication
. . . Plant cultivation
. . . Plants make sense
. . . Plant agency
. . . Plant sense
. . . Plant literature
. . . Plants-People-Planet Timeline
Economic plants
. . . Sugar
. . . Tobacco
. . . Wheat
. . . Beer
. . . Wine
. . . Spirits
. . . Coffee
. . . Tea
. . . Cola
. . . Rubber
Plant science
. . . Scientific Revolution
. . . History of plant science
. . . . . . people & institutions
. . . . . . antiquity
. . . . . . Islamic Golden Age
. . . . . . European Middle Ages
. . . . . . Botanical Renaissance
. . . Botanic gardens
. . . World flora
. . . Anthropogenic plants
. . . Botanical art
Economic Botany
. . . Cultivated plant globalization
. . . Top 50 popular plants
. . . Silk Road
. . . Indian Ocean
. . . Spices
. . . Spice Route
. . . Plant hunters
. . . . . . of Informatia
. . . Weed flora
People
. . . Socrates, Plato, Aristotle
. . . Theophrastus
. . . Epicurus
. . . Philip Miller
. . . Linnaeus & Solander
. . . Josephine Bonaparte
. . . Joseph Banks
. . . Robert Brown
. . . Charles Darwin
. . . Alexander von Humboldt
. . . Joseph Hooker & Thomas Huxley
. . . Alfred Russel Wallace
. . . Ferdinand Mueller
. . . Plant science people
. . . Australian plant people
History
Big History
Everything is connected
Plants & Big History
. . . History in 10,000 words
. . . Four phases
. . . . . . Natura – Prehistory
. . . . . . Agraria – Neolithic Revn
. . . . . . . . . . . . Origins of agriculture
. . . . . . Industria – Industrial Revn
. . . . . . . . . . . . . The Age of Plants
. . . . . . Informatia – Informn Age
Empires
. . . The West – ancient civilizations
. . . The East
. . . MesoAmerican empires
. . . Modern empires
British history
. . . Prehistory
. . . Celts
. . . Roman Britain
. . . Anglo-Saxons
. . . Vikings
. . . Normans
European maritime history
. . . European colonial expansion
. . . Early sightings of Australia
. . . Spanish & Portuguese
. . . The Dutch
. . . English – Will. Dampier
. . . . . . James Cook
. . . . . . William Bligh
. . . . . . Matthew Flinders
. . . . . . Vancouver & Menzies
. . . . . . Darwin & HMS Beagle
. . . French – La Perouse & before
. . . . . . D’Entrecasteaux
. . . . . . Baudin
. . . . . . after Baudin
Settlement Science
. . . Scientific institutions
. . . Learned societies
. . . A classical education
. . . England & France
. . . Enlightenment plants
. . . Pre-European
Australian History
Human origin & migration
First Australians
. . . Culture
. . . Neolithic Revolution
. . . Fire
. . . Megafauna
. . . Food & medicine
. . . Tools & society
. . . Technology & trade
. . . Bennelong & Boongaree
Environmental impact
Cultural reconciliation
Settler values & beliefs
. . . Religion
. . . Prehistory
. . . Christianity & nature
. . . Enlightenment
. . . Land, property, ownership
. . . Botanophilia
. . . Romanticism
Euro-Australian history
. . . 1788 – British heritage
. . . 1788 – Settlement
. . . 1788-1792 Governor Arthur Phillip
. . . 1792-1795 Majors Grose & Paterson
. . . 1795-1800 Governor John Hunter
. . . 1800-1806 Governor Philip King
. . . 1806-1808 Governor William Bligh
. . . 1810-1821 Major-Gen. Lachlan Macquarie
. . . 1821-1825 Maj.-Gen. Sir Thomas Brisbane
. . . 1825-1831 Lt Gen. Sir Ralph Darling
. . . Tasmania
Botanical Exploration
. . . Australian botany
. . . New South Wales
. . . Victoria
. . . Western Australia
. . . South Australia
. . . Northern Territory
. . . Tasmania
. . . The Interior
. . . Australian protectorates
Horticulture
General horticulture
. . . Origins
. . . What is a garden?
. . . Horticulture timeline
. . . Trees in Britain
. . . Nurseries & networks
. . . Plane tree
. . . Norfolk Island Pine
. . . Horticultural literature
Ancient Garden History
. . . Egypt
. . . Mesopotamia
. . . Greece
. . . Persian & Islam
. . . Romans & plants
. . . Asian
. . . East & West
. . . Oriental garden history
British Garden History
. . . Phases of plant introduction
. . . Early Middle Ages 450-1100
. . . Late Middle Ages 1100 – 1500
. . . Tudor 1550 – 1650
. . . Stuart 1603-1707
. . . Georgian 1707-1830
. . . Victorian 1840-1900
. . . Modernism c. 1900-2000
. . . Future gardens
Australian Garden History
First European gardens
Victoria’s first garden
Plant export & import
Native plant cultivars
Australian horticultural literature
Philosophy
General philosophy
. . . Worldviews
. . . Immanuel Kant
. . . Reality
. . . Representation
. . . Morality
. . . Progress
. . . Determinism & free will
. . . Information
. . . The scientific world view
Philosophy of Science
. . . Science & reason
. . . Laws
. . . Causation
. . . Reductionism
. . . . . . emergence
. . . Objects
. . . Theories
. . . Time
. . . . . . flow
. . . . . . change
. . . . . . now
. . . . . . duration
. . . . . . physical time
. . . Commentary
Philosophy of biology
. . . Life as agency
. . . . . . human-talk
. . . Hierarchy
. . . Process
. . . Evolution
. . . Purpose
. . . Purpose & value
. . . Environmental ethics
. . . Philosophy of plant science
. . . Human nature
. . . Reason
. . . Science & morality
. . . Nature & nurture
. . . Moral psychology
. . . The mentally innate
. . . Happiness
. . . Cultural evolution
. . . Meaning
. . . Gardens & human nature
Extras
Plant facts & figures
Coin iconography
Ancient coins
. . . Athenian Owls
. . . Demeter
. . . Goddess Flora
World coin gallery A-F
World coin gallery G-K
World coin gallery K-Z
Australian settl’mt coins
Plant motifs
Language
English
Latin
Writing
Linguistic meaning
Scientific writing
The language of science
Aristotle’s sayings
Future Plant Science
Sport
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