LIVE FLOWERS

—O Tiger-lily —said Alice, addressing herself to one that was waving gracefully about in the wind—, I WISH you could talk!

—We CAN talk —said the Tiger-lily—: when there’s anybody worth talking to.

Alice was so astonished that she could not speak for a minute: it quite seemed to take her breath away. At length, as the Tiger-lily only went on waving about, she spoke again, in a timid voice—almost in a whisper:

—And can ALL the flowers talk?

—As well as YOU can —said the Tiger-lily—. And a great deal louder.

(Lewis Carroll, Through The Looking Glass, chapter II)