"I'm crazy about botany: I'm getting worse day by day, I have nothing left but hay in my head, one of these mornings I'll become a plant too, and I've already put down roots in Môtiers." Botany and herbal medicine have always been Jean-Jacques Rousseau's great passions. For him, the study of nature leads to virtue and wisdom and is essential for all philosophers. Between 1771 and 1773 he wrote eight elementary letters on botany, addressed to Madame Delessert, affectionately called "cousin", and intended for her young daughter. By the early 19th century, these letters would become popular throughout Europe. Together with the Reveries of a Solitary Walker, the elementary letters on botany a......
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