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How Flowers Changed The World By Loren Eiseley Summary

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Loren Eiseley’s descriptive narrative in “How Flowers Changed the World” captures the story of flowers with a flare that it is eloquently written. For Eiseley, it seems as though he thinks that people walk past and dismiss flowers and their importance in this world. Through his persuasive and informative writing, I find myself thinking the same. Flowers are amazing and arguably the sole reason that man is alive and thriving today. Flowering plants were crucial for the life of man to truly begin. Loren Eiseley put in a personal story of seeds exploding on his carpet. “A plant, a fixed, rooted thing, immobilized in a single spot, had devised a way of propelling its offspring across open space.” It made sense that flowers could not just rely on interaction with animals. The sound was so loud, it woke him up in the middle of the night! …show more content…

The first plants were ones like moss from swamps or watercourses. They demanded direct water to survive. The only plants out there were just green in color as well. Flowering plants or angiosperms (which means ‘encased seed’), came about in “Cretaceous times in the close of the Age of Reptiles” and they came with a bang. Eiseley described it as “exploding upon the world with truly revolutionary violence”. A large part of their existence remains a mystery because they “appeared so suddenly and spread so fast.” The dawn of the flowers sparked evolution in all life on Earth. Birds used to look like bizarre lizards with wings if their feathers were plucked. Come the flowers, however, and the birds started showing beaks that were perfect for eating the encased seeds and such from the flowering world. Flowers also brought on the creation of the Hummingbird and other insects that were made for pollination. Nutrition from the flowers were vast.
“There were the tantalizing nectars and pollen intended to draw

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