An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest.
Benjamin Franklin
Laws of Nature
A Beginner's Guide to Constructing the Universe
A Voyage from 1 to 10
This is one of my most favorite books of all time. Before I read this book, numbers were abstract to me...after I could see numbers alive in nature. Filled with drawings and inspiring quotations, this book explores mathematical principles as expressed in flowers, shells, crystals, plants, the human body, the symbolic language of folk sayings and fairy tales, myth and religion, and art and archetecture. It's a comprehensive quide to the petterns that recur through the universe and underlie human affairs. Numbers will never be abstract again.
The Seven Mysteries of Life
This is my all-time favorite, best book about nature. Across more than 600 pages, this respected science writer tells us all about living nature, integrating both the physical and the spiritual. An incredible book (if this sounds overly enthusiastic, a friend of mine agreed after he read the book).
The Universe is a Green Dragon
Written by a physicist, this book describes a "creative force" that exists in all matter, which we humans experience as love. The whole earth comes alive in this book.
A Beginner's Guide to Constructing the Universe
I wish I had this book as a child learning numbers! Instead of abstractions, the numbers one through ten come alive as the author shows us their presence and significane throughout nature. We see exactly how nature constructs all the patterns that shape physical forms. Fascinating, fascinating, fascinating!
