Windflowers, Perceptions of Nature presents prominent artists' insightful and poetic views on the beauty and fragility of nature in today's modern world. In this lavishly illustrated book, the reader is brought face to face with various, sometimes contrasting, perceptions of nature, as depicted by contemporary artists whose roots lie in both Western and non-Western cultures. These artists consider the world critically, are aware of the increasing concern for the future of nature and gloval sustainability, and connect contemporary problems to various cultural economic interests, environment and energy are examined, as are the meditative and cosmological experience of nature, and the romantic loning of humankind vis-a-vis the impsing, mysterious and often treatening natural world.