“The plant strains its whole being in one single
plan: to escape above ground from the fatality below; to elude and
transgress the dark and weighty law, to free itself, to break the narrow
sphere, to invent or invoke wings, to escape as far as possible, to
conquer the space wherein fate encloses it, to approach another kingdom,
to enter a moving, animated world.”
- Maurice Maeterlinck, The Intelligence of Flowers
