Can we imagine a world without flowers? Flowers are beautiful offering us delight in their colour fragrance & form as well as their medicinal benefits. Flowers also speak to us in the language of the plant form itself as cultural symbols in different societies & at the highest levels of inspiration. In this beautiful & original book renowned thinker & geometrist Keith Critchlow has chosen to focus on an aspect of flowers that has received perhaps the least attention. This is the flower as teacher of symmetry & geometry (the eternal verities as Plato called them). In this sense he says flowers can be treated as sources of remembering -- a way of recalling our own wholeness as well as awakening our inner power of recognition & consciousness. What is evident in the geometry of the face of a flower can remind us of the geometry that underlies all existence. Working from his own flower photographs & with every geometric pattern h&-drawn the author reviews the role of flowers within the perspective of our relationship with the natural world. His illuminating study is an attempt to re-engage the human spirit in its intimate relation with all nature.