How flowers and insects came to need each other, explained to children by a teacher who refused to talk down — “it would be very stupid indeed to try to read a book written in Arabic,” she begins, so look up every word you don't know.

Jewelweed Stories

2 pages in this part of Flowers and Their Friends.

Jewelweed Stories (She finds it easy to be)

She finds it easy to be beautiful in the pleasant world, where the sun shines upon her and the breezes fan her.

Jewelweed Stories (What caused them finally)

And what caused them finally to get so widely separated?

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