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    Old Fashioned Flowers, and other out-of-door studies
    Old Fashioned Flowers, and other out-of-door studies
    Old Fashioned Flowers, and other out-of-door studies
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    Old Fashioned Flowers, and other out-of-door studies

    By Maurice Maeterlinck

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    "Old-Fashioned Flowers" is a book that celebrates the timeless charm and beauty of classic flowers. Filled with vibrant images and poetic descriptions, this book explores the rich history and cultural significance of flowers like hollyhocks, columbines, and chrysanthemums.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherGood Press
    Release dateDec 6, 2019
    ISBN4064066232139
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      Old Fashioned Flowers, and other out-of-door studies - Maurice Maeterlinck

      Maurice Maeterlinck

      Old Fashioned Flowers, and other out-of-door studies

      Published by Good Press, 2022

      goodpress@okpublishing.info

      EAN 4064066232139

      Table of Contents

      ILLUSTRATIONS

      OLD-FASHIONED FLOWERS

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      VI

      VII

      VIII

      IX

      NEWS OF SPRING

      II

      III

      IV

      V

      FIELD FLOWERS

      II

      III

      CHRYSANTHEMUMS

      II

      III

      IV

      V

      ILLUSTRATIONS

      Table of Contents

      OLD-FASHIONED FLOWERS

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      OLD-FASHIONED FLOWERS

      THIS morning, when I went to look at my flowers, surrounded by their white fence, which protects them against the good cattle grazing in the field beyond, I saw again in my mind all that blossoms in the woods, the fields, the gardens, the orangeries and the green-houses, and I thought of all that we owe to the world of marvels which the bees visit.

      Can we conceive what humanity would be if it did not know the flowers? If these did not exist, if they had all been hidden from our gaze, as are probably a thousand no less fairy sights that are all around us, but invisible to our eyes, would our character, our faculties, our sense of the beautiful, our aptitude for happiness, be quite the same? We should, it is true, in nature have other splendid manifestations of luxury, exuberance and grace; other dazzling efforts of the superfluous forces: the sun, the stars, the varied lights of the moon, the azure and the ocean, the dawns and twilights, the mountain, the plain, the forest and the rivers, the light and the trees, and lastly, nearer to us, birds, precious stones and woman. These are the ornaments of our planet. Yet but for the last three, which belong to the same smile of nature, how grave, austere, almost sad, would be the education of our eye without the softness which the flowers give! Suppose for a moment that our globe knew them not: a great region, the most enchanted in the joys of our psychology, would be destroyed, or rather would not be discovered. All of a delightful sense would sleep for ever at the bottom of our harder and more desert hearts and in our imagination stripped of worshipful images. The infinite world of colours and shades would have been but incompletely revealed to us by a few rents in the sky. The miraculous harmonies of light at play, ceaselessly inventing new gaieties, revelling in itself, would be unknown to us; for the flowers first

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