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I remember this phrase
Sherwood 2022-03-22 09:01:25
"The point is, what's so wonderful is that all these flowers have a specific relationship with the insect that pollinated it. There's a certain orchild looks exactly like a certain insect. So the insect is drawn to this flower, its double, its soul mate , and wants nothing more than to make love to it. After the insect flies off, it spots another soul mate flower and makes love to it, pollinating it. And neither the flower nor the insect will ever understand the significant of their lovemaking. How could they know that because of their little dance, the world lives? But it does. By simply doing what they're designed to do something large and magnificent happens. In this sense, they show us how to live. How the only barometer you have is your heart. How when you spot your flower, you can't let anything get in your way."
Extended Reading
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John Laroche: You know why I like plants?
Susan Orlean: Nuh uh.
John Laroche: Because they're so mutable. Adaptation is a profound process. Means you figure out how to thrive in the world.
Susan Orlean: [pause] Yeah but it's easier for plants. I mean they have no memory. They just move on to whatever's next. With a person though, adapting almost shameful. It's like running away.
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Donald Kaufman: [about McKee] But he says that we have to realize that we all write in a genre, and we must find our originality within that genre. See it turns out, there hasn't been a new genre since Fellini invented the mockumentary...? My genre's thriller, what's yours?