flowers are nature's gentlest children

Tags: flowers
Categories: Comparisons

An example of metaphor in a scientist's writing:

"Flowers, nature's gentlest children, are also conspicuous for their colours and their cyclic symmetry."

Hermann Weyl

Weyl, H. (1952/2016). Symmetry (New Princeton Science Library edition ed.). Princeton University Press.

Author: Keith

Former school and college science teacher, teacher educator, research supervisor, and research methods lecturer. Emeritus Professor of Science Education at the University of Cambridge.