Alfie Marsland
@alfie_thinks
Alfie Marsland
@alfie_thinks
Dandelions don’t know whether they are a weed or a brilliance. But each seed can create a field of dandelions. We are invited to be that prolific. And to return fertility to the soil around us.
Jack-in-the-pulpit, Arisaema triphyllum, is a perennial forest herb with the ability to change sex.
"the question of whether a computer can think is no more interesting than the question of whether a submarine can swim."
- edsger dijkstra
In Victorian culture, flowers were the language of love. Learning the special symbolism of flowers became a popular pastime during the 1800s when each flower was assigned a particular meaning. Feelings that could not be proclaimed publicly could be expressed through flowers.
"the botanical term for the blossoms of androgynous plants, also known as bisexual plants — plants that contain both the male pollen-producing stamen and the female ovule-producing pistils, and can therefore self-pollinate — is perfect flowers."
“only 7% of plants have separate male and female flowers on the same plant with more than 86% of plants possessing both ‘male’ and ‘female’ parts in the very same flower”