“Even having to water flowers is too much constraint.”
“Western women have been controlled by ideals and stereotypes as much as by material constraints.”
“You must not know too much or be too precise or scientific about birds and trees and flowers and watercraft; a certain free-margin , or even vagueness - ignorance, credulity - helps your enjoyment of these things.”
“[...] even in the cruelest human being there can exist a flower of good. Maybe just the tiniest blossom, in need of water and sunlight, but a flower just the same.”
“If a sheep eats bushes does it eat flowers too?A sheep eats whatever it finds.Even a flower with thorn?Even a flower with thorns.Then what's the good of thorns?”
“Like a necktie or a bouquet of flowers, an idea was best if one did not fuss with it too much”