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The plant is blind but it knows enough to keep pushing upwards towards the light, and it will do this in the face of endless discouragements.

 - George Orwell

Not only does every animal live at the expense of some other animal or plant, but the very plants are at war....The individuals of a species are like the crew of a foundered ship, and none but good swimmers have a chance of reaching the land.

 - Thomas Henry Huxley