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Umberto Eco, who owned 50,000 books, had this to say about home libraries: “It is foolish to think that you have to read all the books you buy, as it is foolish to criticize those who buy more books than they will ever be able to read. It would be like saying that you should use all the cutlery or glasses or screwdrivers or drill bits you bought before buying new ones. “There are things in life that we need to always have plenty of supplies, even if we will only use a small portion. “If, for example, we consider books as medicine, we understand that it is good to have many at home rather than a few: when you want to feel better, then you go to the ‘medicine closet’ and choose a book. Not a random one, but the right book for that moment. That’s why you should always have a nutrition choice! “Those who buy only one book, read only that one and then get rid of it. They simply apply the consumer mentality to books, that is, they consider them a consumer product, a good. Those who love books know that a book is anything but a commodity.”

Emma Haworth, contemporary UK painter 'Ice Skating at Somerset House' watercolour and Indian ink #WomensArt

Snow in Islington, 2018 by UK painter Melissa Scott-Miller #WomensArt

P – POISON BOTTLES By the late 19th century there was an array of poisonous substances available to pretty much anyone who wanted to buy them. 1/

"Begin doing what you want to do now. We are not living in eternity. We have only this moment, sparkling like a star in our hand—and melting like a snowflake." ~ Francis Bacon Rays of Light in the Forest 🎨 Igor Sakharov

@JulianMay4 Curiouser and curiouser…

@DownsTrader That's interesting. Ann Thwaite also wrote a biography of Edmund and this led her to researching his father. She suggests P. H. was much more attentive and loving than in Edmund's book. Undoubtedly through a straight-jacket of religion.

@DownsTrader Philip Henry Gosse: Naturalist and Aquarium Pioneer - the Horniman images.app.goo.gl/iVZw29h3J7RBf9…

In 1958 British artist S R Badmin was commissioned to produce a series of 12 illustrations for the Shell Guide to Trees and Shrubs. Here's January google.com/search?sca_esv…

Winter Snow 1938 #EricRavilious

'View over the Rooftops, Winter' by Rowland Hilder (1905-1993) (Private collection)

Ladybird Artists Advent Calendar, window 14. ‘Mam Tor’ Artist: SR Badmin

Gerard DuBois ‘A #Cat's Life’ - Winter

“The north wind doth blow” Artist: Frank Hampson (1966)

@dunnjons @LearNonsense @NatureInShet @shetlandnature @stmarys_patch @wildflower_hour Beautiful & fascinating - eh @JulianMay4 ?

I've been mooching around the shore beneath my house at low tide the past couple of days. The wildflowers on land may be long a thing of the past summer, but the Dahlia Anemones are blooming still.

December’s Bounty #ElizabethFloyd

'Snowy fields' by contemporary printmaker Angela Harding #WomensArt

'Snow in Islington' (2018) by Melissa Scott-Miller scottmillerart.com

'Nocturne: Grey and Gold - Snow in Chelsea' (1876) by James McNeill Whistler (Harvard Art Museums)

Snowy Riverbank #AlexandraBuckle

Little girl painting