Critical Compendium » The Intelligence of Flowers, by Maurice Maeterlinck, translated by Philip Mosley
The Intelligence of Flowers, by Maurice Maeterlinck, translated by Philip Mosley

‘As a sequel to his enormously successful 1901 essay, “The Life of the Bee,” which sold an astonishing 250,000 copies, (Maurice) Maeterlinck’s 1907 essay “The Intelligence of Flowers” (nicely translated here from the French by Philip Mosley) melds religious intuition and scientific observation. He describes numerous examples of intelligence in flowers as they seek to reproduce, and by analogy insists that the “genius” observed in the behavior of flowers resembles the wisdom of people.’ Read the review at the San Francisco Chronicle.

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