Can we imagine a world without flowers? Flowers are beautiful, offering us delight in their colour, fragrance and form, as well as their medicinal benefits. They speak to us in the language of the plant form itself.

In this original book, renowned thinker and geometrist Keith Critchlow has chosen to focus on an aspect of flowers that has received perhaps the least attention - the flower as teacher of symmetry and geometry.  Working from his flower photographs, with every geometric pattern hand-drawn, the author shows that evident in the geometry of the face of a flower is a reminder of the geometry that underlies all existence.

This illuminating study is an attempt to re-engage the human spirit in its intimate relation with all nature.