The Hidden Geometry of Flowers PDF
Preview The Hidden Geometry of Flowers
This book like the flowers themselves speaks primarily in the language of
images. It also follows a four-layered structure. These can be called points
of view. The first looks into the tangible structure of flowers, the second
takes account of the social value flowers have for us. The third concerns
the symbolic or cultural use of flowers. The fourth celebrates the inspirational effect flowers have on us. All four are integral as well as existingwithin their own separate contexts.
This is not an ‘easy read’ book that follows a single flow of reasoning
from start to finish. On the contrary it is composed of insights as well as
outsights, focusing on how we regard flowers. It is designed to encourage
all who read it to look at flowers in a ‘new’ way. There are also pauses,
during which the reader is encouraged to turn to the nearest flower and
contemplate it and hopefully see it anew.
None of the ideas contained here is dogmatic or fixed, but rather an
offering for consideration. We have been guided ourselves by the truth
of flowers, their beauty and what makes them so important to us —
maybe they are also our teachers of the time-honoured objective truths
of number, geometry, harmony and wholeness.
Keith Critchlow
London, December 2010
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