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Nature has endowed our world with a rich and varied flora and fauna. This biological heritage has not only beautified our surroundings, but, over the millions of years has weaved an intricate relationship with our human lives. In this world of wonders, little wonder each human emotion is expressed with the token of some craft of nature- for instance, with token of a flower concealed with its multifarious folds of petals, some deep and significant meaning. A flower, in its silent presence, speaks volume sometimes as an offering to human love, sometimes as a divine gesture: as the Nobel laureate Tagore Speaks
' Pluck this little flower and take it, delay not! I fear lest it droop and drop into the dust.
Though its colour be not deep and its smell be faint, use this flower in thy service and pluck it while there is time' (Gitanjali, VI)
The exotic language of flowers evolved in the harems of Turkey, used simply to wile away the time, by guessing the meanings attached to each individual flower. It was also employed as a medium of secret communication between lovers. |
