『The wanton waste of flowers among Western communities is more appalling than the way they are treated by Eastern Flower-Masters.
The number of flowers cut daily to adorn the ballrooms and banquet-tables of Europe and America, to thrown away on the morrow, must be something enormous; if strung together they might garland a continent.
Beside this utter carelessness of life, the guilt of the Flower-Master becomes insignificant.
He, at least, respects the economy of nature, selects his victims with careful foresight, and after death does honour to their remains.
In the West the diplay of flowers seems to be part of a moment.
Whither do they all go, these flowers, when the revelery is over?
Nothing is more pitiful than to see a faded flower remorselessly flung upon a dung heap』
(Thr Book of Tea-Flowers, pp.93-94, Charles E. Tuttle Co., Rutland,Vermont, Tokyo,Japan)
All flowers have their life.
It doesn't mean the amount of waste and not the matter of the display moment.
The life of flower blossoms are not long enough and they need to open for their descendants.
I think it's no difference between the West and Easter.
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