Author: Maurice Maeterlinck
Translation: Blanca Gago
Publisher: Gallonero
ISBN: 9788419168016
Binding: paperback
Pages: 100
Format: 19X14
Spanish Language
Year: 2022
«That we find some plants and flowers clumsy or unfortunate does not mean that they are completely devoid of wisdom and ingenuity. All of them, in fact, apply themselves to the culmination of their work, and all have the magnificent ambition of invading and conquering the earth's surface by multiplying to infinity the form of existence that they represent. To achieve this, because of the law that chains them to the ground, they must overcome difficulties far greater than those that challenge the multiplication of animals. ATRUE, most of them must resort to tricks, combinations, mechanisms and traps that, in the field of mechanics, ballistics, aviation or the observation of insects, often surpass the inventions and knowledge of human beings.»
The Intelligence of Flowers is one of the most surprising texts about the natural world and the relationship between man and nature. A book in which scientific observation is accompanied by wonder, and mysticism is anchored in experience. A poetic ode to nature that puts man back in his rightful place in the world: on a par with all its inhabitants.
