“GROWING IN THE mud, and yet so clean, the lotus is a symbol of purity,” writes the Sri Lankan historian Ananda K. Coomaraswamy in his 1913 book “The Arts and Crafts of India & Ceylon.” The lotus pool ...
The lotus is Vietnam's national flower and a plant that's grown across ... and need to be fed almost 24 hours a day with mulberry leaves. The caterpillars delicately spin threads to create their ...