『Yet even in the case of pot flowers we are inclined to suspect the selfishness of man.
Why take the plants from their homes and ask them to bloom mid strange surroundings?
Is it not like asking the birds to sing and mate cooped in cages?
Who knows but that the orchids feel stifled by the artificial heat in your conservatories and hopelessly long for a glimpse of their own Southern skies?
The ideals lover of flowers is he who visits them in their native haunts, like Taoyuenming, who sat before a broken bamboo fence in converse with the wild chrysanthemum, or Linwosing, losing himself amid mysterious fragrance as he wandered in the twilight among the plum-blossoms of the Western Lake.
"Tis said that Chowmushih slept in a boat so that his dreams might mingle with those of the lotus.
It was this same spirit which moved the Empress Komio, one of our most renowned Nara sovereigns, as she sang: "If I plunk three, my hand will defile thee, O Flower!
Standindg in the meadows as thou art, I offer tree to the Buddhas of the past, of the future." 』
(From the Book of Tea-Flowers, pp.97-98, Charles E. Tuttle Co., Rutland,Vermont,Tokyo,Japan)
I agree to enjoy flowers at natural surcumstances and enviroments as they are.
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