flowers are nature's gentlest children

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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.

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