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THE WORLD OF PLANTS
Our planet is bursting with life. Wherever you look, if you take the time to look, you will find things growing. There are few places on earth where life does not exist, at least life that we’re capable of comprehending. And within this bounty of species of living things, perhaps the largest group of individual life forms is plants. From simple blades of grass to highly complex fruit-producing trees, plants dominate the earth.
That we are dependent upon plants is obvious. Our clothing is made from plants. We consume them at every meal. We modify and mass produce them. We are so heavily dependent upon them that even slight changes in our ability to grow plants will result in massive loss of human life. We have harnessed power that only plants possess to gain dominion over our planet.
At the same time we have a unique, unseen and intimate relationship with plants. This relationship is centered on flowers. To us, flowers are beautiful and powerful things. Their delicate, complex beauty seems temporary, however when human interaction and emotion is added, a simple flower may be remembered by two people