『Why were the flowers born so beautiful and yet so hapless ?
Insects can sting, and even the meekerst of beasts will fight when brought to bay.
The bird whose plumage is sought to deck some bonnet can fly from its pursuer, the furred animal whose coast you covet for your own may hide at your approach.
Alas !
The only known flower known to have wings is the butterfly; all others stand helpless before the destroyer.
If they shriek in their death agony their cry never reaches our hardened ears.
We are ever brutal to those who love and serve us in silence, but the time may come when, for our cruelty, we shall be deserted by these best friends of ours.
Have you not noticed that the wild flowers are becoming scarcer every year ?
It may be that their wise men have told them to depart till man becomes more human.
Perhaps they have migrated to heaven. 』
(From the Book of Tea-Flowers, pp.94-95, Charles E. Tuttle Co., Rutland, Vermont, Tokyo)Japan)
It is quite surprising that the wild flowers are becoming scarcer every year at the Okakura's generation already !
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