Wild flowers of Scotland

INTRODUCTION

Fewer pleasant words were said about wildflowers than about the wild animals of Scotland. But our four-legged creatures are few in number, and their story is easily told. Our wild birds, too, have, unfortunately, thinned out, with the exception of the marine forms; and they also belong to other shores. Birds have wings and can cross water. While many wildflowers are almost intact. At the same time, they do not fly from place to place but remain largely where they were all this time. They are ours in the sense that other living beings are not. Moreover, they are not in communication with the wildflowers of other countries. There is no common border through which they blend with related forms. Like us, they have a peninsular character and have grown into what they are over the years spent in the English Channel. Here they are given shape and color. If the quest is not exciting, then it is no less interesting. Some of the rough elements of the sport are missing. We do not shoot them or hunt them with dogs. However, this is not all the graceful wicker baskets in a shady forest clearing or the sunny beach, as Scotland is not made up of such soft features. For the brave, there is a great opportunity to show what is in it. If the ledge of the coastal cliff, on which the peregrine falcon is built, is bad in order to get to it either from the grassy top or from the bottom, where the water gurgles, the crack in which the rare seaside flower itself takes root is even more mysterious. He needs a cool head, as well as a rope and belt. If only a brave man dares to take golden eagle eggs from the face of the Grampian cliff, he will need an even bolder one to plunder a small colony of Alpines, faintly glowing through binoculars, five hundred feet above or below. .

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