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We surround ourselves with flowers and plants because we find them beautiful. But we generally aren’t interested on how they work… In this article Pamela tells us about books that can help understand how plants work. The first book she talk about is called In Flowers: How they changed the world by William C. Burger. In the book Williams explain clearly how plants work and their function. And by the end of the first chapter you will have a clear understanding of the basics if how a flower works. As you move on in the book you learn more on how plants defend them self, how the reproduce... He found all of this out trough fieldwork. In chapter five he talks about how plants spreaded around the world and how they help change the world. Pamela finds this …show more content…
this book talk about modern classification of plants, biodiversity. Many of the plants in the book where found by the author of the book. Thier is around 700 pages just naming the different kind of plants. All together these book show that plants are an important of you history cause they feed us and gave use shelter and medicine. And all these different plant are different because of the climates around the world which they had to adapted to. We don't give plants enough credit for all they do and they will do for us. We should study plants a bit more in school so then we are less ignorant about the greatness. This article was well written and it was not hard to understand. The author of this article showed that she didn't write this without any knowledge. And from the looks of things it look like what she was well trained about biology and plants. I have to agree with her about that we don't learn enough about plants and all they did for us. This article open up my eyes on all the greatness plant's did even if she didn't talk about it directly. Knowing this know I feel like we should give plants more credit for what they did to help

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