Chemistry is the Science of Colours

Once as a child I was so much  fascinated by the colour of  a wild flower that I took it home and started thinking of ways to extract it. My uncle told me that in ancient times people dyed their clothes with natural colours from flowers , roots and bark of trees. Under his guidance I boiled the wild flower in water and kept the blood red coloured water in my bookself for years.Can we extract the colours of the mud,the soil and the leaves? What are these colours? How the colour disappear when the plant dies? It was this inquisitiveness that I coloured my life with chemistry.