{"product_id":"2026100009221-secondhand-life-and-flowers","title":"Life And Flowers","description":"\u003cp\u003eEdition: 1st ed.,\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition remarks:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBook: Good\u003cbr\u003eJacket: No dust jacket - some marks on spine and corners\u003cbr\u003ePages: Yellowed\u003cbr\u003eMarkings: Previous owner\u003cbr\u003eCondition remarks: Good for age - Binding: slightly shaky; minor marks on boards; internally sound. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn an age of industrial certainty and scientific conquest, Maurice Maeterlinck turned his gaze to the silent, unhurried world of flowers and found in them a universe of profound philosophical meaning. Life and Flowers presents a series of meditative essays in which the Belgian Nobel laureate argues that the vegetable kingdom — so often dismissed as the backdrop to human drama — is in fact a mirror of life's deepest truths, chronicling the secret intelligence, resilience, and beauty that pulse through the natural world.\n\nMaeterlinck writes with the lyrical authority of a poet and the penetrating insight of a philosopher, illuminating the strange parallels between plant life and the human condition with elegance and wonder. Translated with graceful fidelity by Alexander Teixeira de Mattos, this 1907 George Allen edition stands as a testament to the author's singular ability to transform the botanical into the transcendent. Readers who surrender to its unhurried pace will find themselves forever altered in how they regard a garden — or, indeed, the arc of their own existence.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Secondhand Stock","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49269348565211,"sku":"2026100009221-SECONDHAND","price":120.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0523\/7646\/9701\/files\/db308360-0cd2-4600-a22b-0fd15a454b76.png?v=1788999097","url":"https:\/\/bookgrocer.com\/products\/2026100009221-secondhand-life-and-flowers","provider":"Book Grocer","version":"1.0","type":"link"}