The intelligence of flowers - Maurice Metterlink

We can say that flowers think in the same way as we do, they feel their way in the darkness itself, face the same obstacles that hinder our path, are frustrated by the same bad intentions of others, and stumble in the corners of the unknown itself. The laws that apply to humans also apply to flowers, and they taste the bitterness of disappointments themselves, and they feel the taste of victories soaked in suffering and pain. It seems that flowers possess our ability to patience and perseverance and self-love and fiery intelligence capable of diversity, and it also seems that flowers are driven by our hopes and emulate our ideals. Flowers do not differ from us in their struggle against the ruthless, indifferent force of life, which ends with offering help, where the creative, developing imagination of flowers does not merely follow clever, cautious methods, nor do they only take rugged and arduous paths, but the intelligence of flowers often jumps surprising leaps, eventually reaching innovations whose effectiveness is questionable.