“The Flower of Space”. At first, it seems to be made of stained glass or something else.

《空间花朵》，乍一看，这个作品仿佛是用彩色玻璃或是别的什么东西做的。

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For example, he contrasted the effect of a common wild flower on a grassy bank with that of a gaudy hybrid of the same genus, imported from Japan and blooming under glass in an enameled vase.

举例说，他对比了一朵在青草畔上的野花和一支在瓷釉花瓶中盛开着的，日本进口的俗丽的杂交同类花的不同效果。

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I had that flower in the palm of my hand. The petals and the glass were mixed together. Should I believe, or should I disappear?

我的掌心有一朵花，花瓣和玻璃混杂在一起。我是该相信呢还是该远离？

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He cites Harvard University's glass-flower collection at its Museum of Natural History as an inexhaustible cache of ideas, for form, content and sheer brazen originality.

WSJ: Porcelain Flowers Never Die

Much work is left to get the proteins producing the kind of silicon or titanium dioxides that could run a computer or power your house, but the dream is to have synthetic creations that organically produce what would normally need a mining expedition -- imagine something akin to the glass-like Venus' Flower Basket sponge (pictured above) sitting in an Intel factory.

ENGADGET: UCSB engineers proteins that make silicon, leads hipsters to insist on organically-grown computers

At the court's periphery, the flower-topped columns and golden glass lanterns of Louis Comfort Tiffany's garden loggia at Laurelton Hall evoke a lost world of decorative magnificence and sumptuous style.

WSJ: The Metropolitan Museum of Art | American Wing | The New World Reborn | By Ada Louise Huxtable