I live in the south. And one thing that’s prolific in the south (besides biscuits and gravy, ripe peaches, country music, and pickup trucks) is pollen with a capital POLLEN. It’s quite literally everywhere in springtime — on your car, on your lawn furniture, on your mailbox, etc. And although I know it causes havoc for my friends with spring allergies, this same bothersome yellow powder enables future peaches to grow and beautiful flowers to bloom next year.
Here's a quote from James Clerk Maxwell applying cross-pollination to scientists: “We are too apt to suppose that we are congregated here merely to be within reach of certain appliances of study, such as museums and laboratories, libraries and lectures, so that each of us may study what he prefers. I suppose that when the bees crowd round the flowers it is for the sake of the honey that they do so, never thinking that it is the dust which they are carrying from flower to flower which is to render possible a more splendid array of flowers and a busier crowd of bees in the years to come. We cannot therefore do better than improve the shining hour in helping forward the cross-fertilization of the Sciences.”
Here's a quote from James Clerk Maxwell applying cross-pollination to scientists: “We are too apt to suppose that we are congregated here merely to be within reach of certain appliances of study, such as museums and laboratories, libraries and lectures, so that each of us may study what he prefers. I suppose that when the bees crowd round the flowers it is for the sake of the honey that they do so, never thinking that it is the dust which they are carrying from flower to flower which is to render possible a more splendid array of flowers and a busier crowd of bees in the years to come. We cannot therefore do better than improve the shining hour in helping forward the cross-fertilization of the Sciences.”
Awesome - great thoughts!