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The Intelligence of Flowers

Author : Maurice Maeterlinck
Publisher : State University of New York Press
ISBN 13 : 0791479218
Total Pages : 110 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (914 download)

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Download or read book The Intelligence of Flowers written by Maurice Maeterlinck and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 2013-12-05 with total page 110 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the 2008 Prix de la Traduction Littéraire presented by French Community of Belgium The second of Maeterlinck's four celebrated nature essays—along with those on the life of the bee, ant, and termite—"The Intelligence of Flowers" (1907) represents his impassioned attempt to popularize scientific knowledge for an international audience. Writing with characteristic eloquence, Maeterlinck asserts that flowers possess the power of thought without knowledge, a capacity that constitutes a form of intelligence. Appearing one hundred years after the first publication, Philip Mosley's new translation of the original French essay, and the related essay "Scents," maintains the verve of Maeterlinck's prose and renders it accessible to the present-day reader. This is a book for those who are excited by creative encounters between literature and science as well as current debates on the relationship of humankind to the natural world.

The Play of Daniel Keyes' Flowers for Algernon

Author :
Publisher : Heinemann
ISBN 13 : 9780435232931
Total Pages : 136 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (329 download)

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Download or read book The Play of Daniel Keyes' Flowers for Algernon written by and published by Heinemann. This book was released on 1993 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

INTELLIGENCE OF THE FLOWERS

Author : MAURICE. MAETERLINCK
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781033110270
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (12 download)

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Download or read book INTELLIGENCE OF THE FLOWERS written by MAURICE. MAETERLINCK and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Intelligence of the Flowers

Author : Maurice Maeterlinck
Publisher : Theclassics.Us
ISBN 13 : 9781230249322
Total Pages : 18 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (493 download)

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Download or read book The Intelligence of the Flowers written by Maurice Maeterlinck and published by Theclassics.Us. This book was released on 2013-09 with total page 18 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1907 edition. Excerpt: ... applied to the removal of various necessities that crush us, such as pain, old age and death, one half of the energy displayed by any little flower in our gardens, we may well believe that our lot would be very different from what it is. in This need of movement, this craving for space, among the greater number of plants, is manifested in both the flower and the fruit. It is easily explained in the fruit, or, in any case, discloses only a less complex experience and foresight. Contrary to that which takes place in the animal kingdom and because of the terrible law of absolute immobility, the chief and worst enemy of the seed is the paternal stock. We are in a strange world, where the parents, unable to move from place to place, know that they are condemned to starve or stifle their offspring. Every seed that falls at the foot of the tree or plant is either lost or doomed to sprout in wretchedness. Hence the immense f effort to throw off the yoke and conquer space. Hence the marvellous systems of dissemination, of propulsion, of navigation of the air which we find on every side in the forest and the plain: among others, to mention, in passing, but a few of the most curious, the aerial screw or samara of the Maple; the bract of the Lime-tree; the flyingmachine of the Thistle, the Dandelion and the Salsafy; the detonating springs of the Spurge; the extraordinary squirt of the Momordica; the hooks of the eriophilous plants; and a thousand other unexpected and astounding pieces of mechanism; for there is. not, so to speak, a single seed but has invented for its sole use a complete method of escaping from the maternal shade. It would, in fact, be impossible, if one had not practised a little botany, to believe the expenditure of imagination...

The Intelligence of the Flowers

Author : Maurice Maeterlinck
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 179 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (194 download)

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Download or read book The Intelligence of the Flowers written by Maurice Maeterlinck and published by . This book was released on 1913 with total page 179 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Brilliant Green

Author : Stefano Mancuso
Publisher : Island Press
ISBN 13 : 1610916034
Total Pages : 190 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (19 download)

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Download or read book Brilliant Green written by Stefano Mancuso and published by Island Press. This book was released on 2015-03-12 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this book, a leading plant scientist offers a new understanding of the botanical world and a passionate argument for intelligent plant life. Are plants intelligent? Can they solve problems, communicate, and navigate their surroundings? For centuries, philosophers and scientists have argued that plants are unthinking and inert, yet discoveries over the past fifty years have challenged this idea, shedding new light on the complex interior lives of plants. In Brilliant Green, leading scientist Stefano Mancuso presents a new paradigm in our understanding of the vegetal world. He argues that plants process information, sleep, remember, and signal to one another-showing that, far from passive machines, plants are intelligent and aware. Part botany lesson, part manifesto, Brilliant Green is an engaging and passionate examination of the inner workings of the plant kingdom.--

The Intelligence of the Flowers

Author : Maurice Maeterlinck
Publisher : Musson
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 204 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book The Intelligence of the Flowers written by Maurice Maeterlinck and published by Musson. This book was released on 1907 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Intelligence of the Flowers

Author : Maurice Maeterlinck
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9782357289000
Total Pages : 100 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (89 download)

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Download or read book The Intelligence of the Flowers written by Maurice Maeterlinck and published by . This book was released on 2021-10-12 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This vegetable world, which to us appears so placid, so resigned, in which all seems acquies-cence, silence, obedience, meditation, is, on the con-trary, 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 birth to life. This original text is surprising by its scientific precision and accuracy. Maeterlinck's meticulous observations lead us to a veritable masterpiece of descriptions and fundamental questions, bringing into question the observer and the observed. Indeed, the analogies that he uses between the floral kingdom and that of men, make us humble and inquiring, moved and pensive. This portrayal of the intellectual mechanisms of flowers becomes simultaneously poetic, philosophical, and political. Moving between wonder and knowledge, Maeterlinck asks us to preserve the links that unite us with nature. Now that an ecological disaster is threatening to destroy this fragile harmony, this book is well worth reading. Maurice Maeterlinck was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1911 "in appreciation of his many-sided literary activities, and especially of his dramatic works, which are distinguished by a wealth of imagination and by a poetic fancy, which reveals, sometimes in the guise of a fairy tale, a deep inspiration, while in a mysterious way they appeal to the readers' own feelings and stimulate their imaginations". Large print edition, easy-to-read layout, illustrated.

The Flowers

Author : Dagoberto Gilb
Publisher : Open Road + Grove/Atlantic
ISBN 13 : 1555848222
Total Pages : 325 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (558 download)

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Download or read book The Flowers written by Dagoberto Gilb and published by Open Road + Grove/Atlantic. This book was released on 2009-02-17 with total page 325 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dagoberto Gilb is “one of the most powerful writers in his generation, and The Flowers is perhaps his best book . . . Not to be missed” (Larry McMurtry). Sonny Bravo is a sensitive, unusually smart fifteen-year-old who lives with his vivacious mother. But when she marries an Okie building contractor, they are uprooted to a small apartment building in a city where prejudice is not just white against black, but also brown. As Sonny meets his new neighbors, he is inexorably ensnared in their lives: Cindy, a married, bored, drugged-up eighteen-year-old; Nica, a cloistered Mexican girl who cares for her infant brother despite never being allowed to leave her apartment: Pink, an albino black man who sells old cars in front of the building; and Bud, a muscle-bound construction worker who hates blacks and Mexicans, even while he’s married to a Mexican-American woman. In arguably his most powerful work yet, Dagoberto Gilb has written “a psychologically complex novel” that transcends age, race, and time, displaying the fearlessness and wit that have helped make him one of America’s most authentic and original voices (The Washington Post).

Michael De Feo: Flowers

Author : Michael De Feo
Publisher : Abrams
ISBN 13 : 1683355180
Total Pages : 198 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (833 download)

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Download or read book Michael De Feo: Flowers written by Michael De Feo and published by Abrams. This book was released on 2019-04-09 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As an art student in 1993, Michael De Feo drew a simple bloom that became a familiar and welcome presence in New York after he spent countless nights pasting hundreds of versions of it all over the city’s building walls. Twenty-five years later, these flowers have been sighted in more than 60 international cities. His street works took a new direction in 2015 when a guerrilla art collective provided him access to the cases that protect bus-shelter ads, enabling him to launch a beautiful campaign of his blossoms on top of fashion ads. His art has taken many forms, including a substantial body of studio work inspired by Dutch 17th-century paintings and another series which married floral themes with Pre-Raphaelite and Victorian portraiture. De Feo’s colorful and lively book reproduces more than 200 of his flower-inspired images and features commentary from a diverse group of people who have supported his often-clandestine work.

The Intelligence of the Flowers (Classic Reprint)

Author : Maurice Maeterlinck
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9780265166635
Total Pages : 188 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (666 download)

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Download or read book The Intelligence of the Flowers (Classic Reprint) written by Maurice Maeterlinck and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-10-11 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Intelligence of the Flowers It would be superﬂuous once more to trace the picture of the great systems of ﬂoral fertilization: the play of stamens and pistil, the seduction of perfumes, the appeal of harmonious and dazzling colours, the concoction of nectar, which is absolutely useless to the ﬂower and is manufactured only to attract and retain02 - 1040. 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.

The Secret Teachings of Plants

Author : Stephen Harrod Buhner
Publisher : Inner Traditions / Bear & Co
ISBN 13 : 1591430356
Total Pages : 332 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (914 download)

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Download or read book The Secret Teachings of Plants written by Stephen Harrod Buhner and published by Inner Traditions / Bear & Co. This book was released on 2004-10-27 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ancient and indigenous peoples have insisted their knowledge of plant medicines came from the plants themselves, perceived through a heart-centered mode of perception, not trial-and-error experimentation. Author Stephen Harrod Buhner explores this heart-centered mode of perception, helping readers learn about the medicinal uses of plants and gather information directly from the heart of Nature.

Flowers for Algernon

Author : Daniel Keyes
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN 13 : 015603008X
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (56 download)

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Download or read book Flowers for Algernon written by Daniel Keyes and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2004 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A mentally retarded adult has a brain operation that turns him into a genius.

Plant Intelligence and the Imaginal Realm

Author : Stephen Harrod Buhner
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1591438365
Total Pages : 576 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (914 download)

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Download or read book Plant Intelligence and the Imaginal Realm written by Stephen Harrod Buhner and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2014-05-14 with total page 576 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A manual for opening the doors of perception and directly engaging the intelligence of the Natural World • Provides exercises to directly perceive and interact with the complex, living, self-organizing being that is Gaia • Reveals that every life form on Earth is highly intelligent and communicative • Examines the ecological function of invasive plants, bacterial resistance to antibiotics, psychotropic plants and fungi, and the human species In Plant Intelligence and the Imaginal Realm, Stephen Harrod Buhner reveals that all life forms on Earth possess intelligence, language, a sense of I and not I, and the capacity to dream. He shows that by consciously opening the doors of perception, we can reconnect with the living intelligences in Nature as kindred beings, become again wild scientists, nondomesticated explorers of a Gaian world just as Goethe, Barbara McClintock, James Lovelock, and others have done. For as Einstein commented, “We cannot solve the problems facing us by using the same kind of thinking that created them.” Buhner explains how to use analogical thinking and imaginal perception to directly experience the inherent meanings that flow through the world, that are expressed from each living form that surrounds us, and to directly initiate communication in return. He delves deeply into the ecological function of invasive plants, bacterial resistance to antibiotics, psychotropic plants and fungi, and, most importantly, the human species itself. He shows that human beings are not a plague on the planet, they have a specific ecological function as important to Gaia as that of plants and bacteria. Buhner shows that the capacity for depth connection and meaning-filled communication with the living world is inherent in every human being. It is as natural as breathing, as the beating of our own hearts, as our own desire for intimacy and love. We can change how we think and in so doing begin to address the difficulties of our times.

Flowers for Algernon

Author : Daniel Keyes
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780886820077
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (2 download)

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Download or read book Flowers for Algernon written by Daniel Keyes and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mentally retarded Charlie Gordon participates in an experiment which turns him into a genius but only temporarily.

Lightning Flowers

Author : Katherine E. Standefer
Publisher : Little, Brown Spark
ISBN 13 : 0316450359
Total Pages : 281 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (164 download)

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Download or read book Lightning Flowers written by Katherine E. Standefer and published by Little, Brown Spark. This book was released on 2020-11-10 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This "utterly spectacular" book weighs the impact modern medical technology has had on the author's life against the social and environmental costs inevitably incurred by the mining that makes such innovation possible (Rachel Louise Snyder, author of No Visible Bruises). What if a lifesaving medical device causes loss of life along its supply chain? That's the question Katherine E. Standefer finds herself asking one night after being suddenly shocked by her implanted cardiac defibrillator. In this gripping, intimate memoir about health, illness, and the invisible reverberating effects of our medical system, Standefer recounts the astonishing true story of the rare diagnosis that upended her rugged life in the mountains of Wyoming and sent her tumbling into a fraught maze of cardiology units, dramatic surgeries, and slow, painful recoveries. As her life increasingly comes to revolve around the internal defibrillator freshly wired into her heart, she becomes consumed with questions about the supply chain that allows such an ostensibly miraculous device to exist. So she sets out to trace its materials back to their roots. From the sterile labs of a medical device manufacturer in southern California to the tantalum and tin mines seized by armed groups in the Democratic Republic of the Congo to a nickel and cobalt mine carved out of endemic Madagascar jungle, Lightning Flowers takes us on a global reckoning with the social and environmental costs of a technology that promises to be lifesaving but is, in fact, much more complicated. Deeply personal and sharply reported, Lightning Flowers takes a hard look at technological mythos, healthcare, and our cultural relationship to medical technology, raising important questions about our obligations to one another, and the cost of saving one life.

Dog Flowers

Author : Danielle Geller
Publisher : One World
ISBN 13 : 1984820419
Total Pages : 273 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (848 download)

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Download or read book Dog Flowers written by Danielle Geller and published by One World. This book was released on 2022-04-12 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A daughter returns home to the Navajo reservation to retrace her mother’s life in a memoir that is both a narrative and an archive of one family’s troubled history. “A candid and achingly fractured memoir of [Geller’s] mother, her family, her Navajo heritage and her own journey to self-discovery and acceptance.”—Ms. SHORTLISTED FOR: The Hubert Evans Non-Fiction Prize, The Jim Deva Prize for Writing That Provokes • ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: Esquire, She Reads When Danielle Geller’s mother dies of alcohol withdrawal during an attempt to get sober, Geller returns to Florida and finds her mother’s life packed into eight suitcases. Most were filled with clothes, except for the last one, which contained diaries, photos, and letters, a few undeveloped disposable cameras, dried sage, jewelry, and the bandana her mother wore on days she skipped a hair wash. Geller, an archivist and a writer, uses these pieces of her mother’s life to try and understand her mother’s relationship to home, and their shared need to leave it. Geller embarks on a journey where she confronts her family's history and the decisions that she herself had been forced to make while growing up, a journey that will end at her mother's home: the Navajo reservation. Dog Flowers is an arresting, photo-lingual memoir that masterfully weaves together images and text to examine mothers and mothering, sisters and caretaking, and colonized bodies. Exploring loss and inheritance, beauty and balance, Danielle Geller pays homage to our pasts, traditions, and heritage, to the families we are given and the families we choose.