Reverent Flora – The Arabian Desert’s Botanical Bounty
By Diana Woodcock. Shanti Arts, 2025.
Reverent Flora: The Arabian Desert’s Botanical Bounty is a collection of poetry that catalogues the Arabian Desert’s critically endangered, disappearing flora while promoting caretaking of the earth. Living for two decades at the edge of the Arabian Desert, poet Diana Woodcock became most interested in local and global conservation issues, as well as in the environmental ethic of the Qur’an. In anticipation of the opening of Qatar’s UNESCO-sponsored Qur’anic Botanic Garden—the purpose of which is to maintain for ...