Flower Revolution
I’m not sure if this passage has any scientific value, as it was written in the 60s by the anthropologist Loren Eiseley, but for as long as humans are around, and for as long as a good number of these humans communicate with English, and for as long as a small number of these English speakers have spots in their spines that are sensitive to the slightest changes in light and sound, this passage will certainly have value as poetry.
Once upon a time there were no flowers at all.A little while ago - about one hundred million years, as the geologist estimates in the history of our four-billion-year-old planet - flowers were not to be found anywhere on the five continents. Wherever one might have looked, from the poles to the equator, one would have seen only the cold dark monotonous green of a world whose plant life possessed no other color.
Somewhere, just a short time before the close of the Age of Reptiles, there occurred soundless, violent explosion. It lasted millions of years, but it was an explosion, nevertheless. It marked the emergence of the angiosperms - the flowering plants. Even the great evolutionist Charles Darwin called them “an abominable mystery,” because they appeared so, suddenly and spread so fast.
Flowers changed the face of the planet. Without them, the world we know - even man himself - would never have existed.
Blue Orchid
What's mudede smoking? I want some. This reads like the first paragraphs in a bad undergraduate essay.