Nature's Fireworks

Backblip for Friday 4th March 2016


"Against a dark sky all flowers look like fireworks. There is something strange about them, at once vivid and secret, like flowers traced in fire in the phantasmal garden of a witch"


Taken from  'The Glory of Grey' essay in the 1910 collection Alarms and Discursions by G. K. Chesterton (1874 - 1936)