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BOOK REVIEW / On Science

Excursions: The Writings of Henry D. Thoreau

Edited by Joseph J. Moldenhauer

Princeton University, 650 pp., illustrated, $65

The Intelligence of Flowers

By Maurice Maeterlinck

Translated, from the French, by Philip Mosley

State University of New York, 77 pp., $38.50; paperback, $12.95

"Books of natural history make the most cheerful winter reading," suggested Henry David Thoreau, and since flurries have been flying pretty much continuously past my windows this month, I thought I'd take his advice.

Thoreau, as you may or may not know, wrote somewhere around a gazillion ...

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