The Intelligence of the Flowers: illustrated

"This vegetable world, which to us appears so placid, so resigned, in which all seems acquies­cence, silence, obedience, meditation, is, on the con­trary, that in which the revolt against destiny is the most vehement and the most stubborn."

Far from being a botanical study, this magnificent poetic work puts the special nature of flowers. The Intelligence of the Flowers constitutes a real philosophical discovery of the floral world, and particularly its interaction with social insects to give...