Nature Notes 7

The writing in old books is often my inspiration for my own writing but to modern eyes their script seems naive and in this case, perhaps, a tad condescending. Having said that, I’ve only ever had one South Sea Island friend and she, I think, would probably agree with the author’s sentiment.

“There is a love of flowers fast knit into the very fibre of our British nature;
nevertheless we share with such children of Nature as South Sea Islander...."