‘The relationship between humans and flowers is special. Humans have always been strangely attracted to flowers even when they provide no physical sustenance and when resources are low. Humans have also put embodied and physical effort into growing flowers for their aesthetic qualities.

Through observing the relationship between person and flower from an embodied perspective, we learned that flowers demand us to become engaged with the flower, and thus the world, on the embodied level, helping to bridge moments of embodied separation from people [33]. Flowers demand the interaction and engagement of the bodies of people to tend them, to move towards them, to bend over and smell them, to pick them, and to look after them. This corresponds to definitions of embodied aesthetics that occur through moving our bodies within space, rather than only through contemplating the environment. [3,4,5].’

Research by Ephrat Huss, Kfir Bar Yosef and Michele Zaccai “Humans’ Relationship to Flowers as an Example of the Multiple Components of Embodied Aesthetics”