We're already getting the flowers and the curses.

It's something that you can't teach. It's something they have to already have.

I bid your voice be dumb until the day you find a word worth speaking.

How did these organs of plant sex manage to get themselves cross-wired with human ideas of value and status and Eros? And what might our ancient attraction for flowers have to teach us about the deeper mysteries of beauty - what one poet has called "this grace wholly gratuitous"? Is that what it is? Or does beauty have a purpose? (64)

All of American society will benefit from what we have already done, which is to call attention to negative stereotyping of Indians. One of the things I've learned in the last three months is how insidiously Indian stereotyping has filtered into the general American consciousness. We would never allow stereotyping of other racial or ethnic groups in the way that we allow the stereotypes of Indians.

It would be a horribly inefficient system if they flew all around the place visiting flowers they had already emptied. As a matter of fact, they would be using more energy than they would be taking in. That's why we expected them to be able to do this, and we were, of course, delighted to find that they could indeed solve this type of problem.