The Wild Flowers of California: Their Names, Haunts, and Habits

PREFACE

To the thoughtless a flower is often a trivial thing--beautiful perhaps, and worthy of a passing glance--but that is all. But to the mind open to the great truths of the universe, it takes on a deeper significance. Such a mind sees in its often humble beginnings the genesis of things far-reaching and mighty. Two thousand years ago one grain of the shower of pollen wafted upo...