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Excerpt from Wild Flowers Worth Knowing
A still more popular edition of what has proved to the author to be a surprisingly popular book has been pre pared by the able hand of Mr. Asa Don Dickinson, and is now offered in the hope that many more people will find the wild ?owers in Nature''s garden all about us well worth knowing. For ?owers have distinct objects in life and are everything they are for the most justifiable of reasons, i. E. The perpetuation and the improvement of their species. The means they employ to accomplish these ends are so various and so consummately clever that, in learning to understand them, we are brought to realize how similar they are to the fundamental aims of even the human race. Indeed there are few life principles that plants have not worked out satisfactorily. The problems of adapting oneself to one''s environment, of insuring healthy families, of starting one''s children well in life, of founding new colonies in distant lands, of the cooperative method of conducting business as opposed to the individualistic, of laying up treasure in the bank for future use, of punishing vice and rewarding virtue - these and many other problems of mankind the ?owers have worked out with the help of insects, through the ages To really understand what the wild ?owers are doing, what the scheme of each one is, besides looking beautiful.
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A still more popular edition of what has proved to the author to be a surprisingly popular book has been pre pared by the able hand of Mr. Asa Don Dickinson, and is now offered in the hope that many more people will find the wild ?owers in Nature''s garden all about us well worth knowing. For ?owers have distinct objects in life and are everything they are for the most justifiable of reasons, i. E. The perpetuation and the improvement of their species. The means they employ to accomplish these ends are so various and so consummately clever that, in learning to understand them, we are brought to realize how similar they are to the fundamental aims of even the human race. Indeed there are few life principles that plants have not worked out satisfactorily. The problems of adapting oneself to one''s environment, of insuring healthy families, of starting one''s children well in life, of founding new colonies in distant lands, of the cooperative method of conducting business as opposed to the individualistic, of laying up treasure in the bank for future use, of punishing vice and rewarding virtue - these and many other problems of mankind the ?owers have worked out with the help of insects, through the ages To really understand what the wild ?owers are doing, what the scheme of each one is, besides looking beautiful.
About the Publisher
Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com
This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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Publisher - Forgotten Books
Language - English
Hardback
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Author
Neltje Blanchan
Published Date -
ISBN - 9780266552147
Dimensions - 22.9 x 15.2 x 1.8 cm
Page Count - 338
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Contributors
Author
Neltje Blanchan
Published Date -
ISBN - 9780282797911
Dimensions - 22.9 x 15.2 x 1.8 cm
Page Count - 340
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