#Natural history

Author: Maria Popova / Source: Brain Pickings A century before Peter Rabbit creator Beatrix Potter revolutionized mycology with her groundbreaking studies and illustrations of mushrooms, which she was banned from presenting at London’s Linnaean Society on account of her gender, another

Author: Maria Popova / Source: Brain Pickings “I prefer the time of insects to the time of stars,” the Nobel-winning Polish poet Wisława Szymborska wrote in her stunning poem “Possibilities.” And why shouldn’t we? We are, after all, creatures pinned to scales of space and time far closer to those

The human urge to classify and collect enables us to understand and explore the universe – but that same impulse also makes us fanatical about the things we love from the modern world. I am working on a collection of illustrations that celebrate that trait in both Natural History and modern

The Alexander McQueen Spring/Summer 2010 Show, titled « Plato’s Atlantis », was influenced by Charles Darwin’s 1859 « On the Origin of Species ». Photo : MarieClaire.fr        

The Leyre Valiente Spring/Summer 2014 Collection, entitled « Amphibia », is partly based on Ernst Haeckel’s illustrations of the sea world. Photo : Courtesy of Leyre Valiente