Is picking a wild flower 'wrong'?

when I see one I want to pick it so I can see it , hold it, touch it...I know I could do those same things if I just get down and personal with it BUT.....then while I'm thinking about it one of my kids will run up to me with one they have just picked and hand it to me ....I think that could be one of the MOST beautiful experiences in my life......I want to pick them too....sometimes I do...and wear them in my hair.





but in my heart I still have this voice that says don't pick the flowers?????What is it...just that they are so pure and 'untouched?'








Man I wish I was in a field with some flowers......

Is picking a wild flower 'wrong'?
I wouldn't mind being in a field with flowers too...ahhh...





I don't see picking a flower as "wrong." I dunno. So many things are beautiful...a flower worn in a woman's hair is beautiful....picking the flower up and admiring it's beauty...it might be different if you picked it up and just carelessly discarded the flower...but it sounds like you are appreciating it's beauty.





Me personally, I understand the urge to pick it up, see it, touch it....but I have that voice to not pick it up too...lol...so I never pick them...this is just me--not any judgment on my part for flower pickers. lol.





I think that is it: they are so pure and 'untouched'....perfect right where they are....dancing in the wind...connected to the earth...so fragile and beautiful....somehow it doesn't feel 'right' to pick it and have it as my own....





u ask really amazing questions:))
Reply:No it is not wrong. Yet it would be best to leave it be. We admire these flowers for their beauty and then pluck them from life. In admiration alone you can enjoy its beauty. but if you feel the need to pick one. Go ahead.





plant some flowers and watch i from day in to day out, you surly will not want to pick it if you are the one that put all of your hard work into making it grow.
Reply:That is what they are there for. Unless they are an endangered plant species. Then look but do not touch.
Reply:we shouldn't pick them because we didn't plant or grow them.


I never pick wild flowers, it just doesn't feel right.


It is parallel to picking someone's roses from their rose garden.
Reply:Thanks for sharing your dilema. To me it depends on intent and you can learn from them more when you get down on their "level." That is, they don't pick any flowers themselves.
Reply:It makes me feel good to hear a question like this...


Choosing to pick or not pick the flower, shouldn't really matter to the grand scheme of life.


Instead, it does show alot however about the individual's unconscious ethical morality.


Although it would seem nice to honor the flowers beauty, by picking it and looking at it's intriquicies and admiring each little bit as the flower usually becomes disected in the process, (He loves me, he loves me not!) You have infact destroyed the very beauty that attracted you to it in the first place.


Strangely though, this is life and just because something is beautiful doesn't mean it is free from the harsh realities of life.


So this is where ones ethical morality comes into play... (this goes way beyond picking flowers, but flower picking is a great representation.)





Do you live your life as a taker? that is too consumed in your life to care how picking the flower will take it away from all other things to enjoy?





-or-





Do you live life as a giver? One who understands that although you might not be able to consume all the beauty of the flower by picking it. You know that with time, that flower left alone will provide many more creatures of this land a chance to admire it?
Reply:I'm confused as to why it would be wrong?





Because you're disturbing nature?





Aren't you part of nature? If you mowed the whole field down.. now maybe it could be seen as an issue... but you're picking a flower to experience its beauty? I don't see it as an issue at all, to embrace passion.
Reply:On my aunts farm there is a hillside that is full of wild flowers. Its so beautiful. The entire field is yellow, white and purple. I do not know what the flowers are, except they take your breath away.





You would love it. Could pick yourself a big bouquet! Oh, yes, they do smell like heaven.
Reply:To me, it's not because they're pure %26amp; "untouched." It's because if you pick them, they will DIE. I know that childen love to pick wildflowers, %26amp; to bring a wildflower to you is a "gift." I enjoy seeing them alive, in their environment. That's not to say it wouldn't be tempting to gather an armful--but, I NEVER have cut flowers in my house, %26amp; everyone knows this. Is picking, %26amp; ultimately killing it a sefish act? Only you can answer that. It seems you already have.





I forgot to mention, that in California, it's against the law to pick wildflowers. At least where I live.
Reply:the flower is the most beautiful thing many plants produce in their short lives. after the flower is pollenated, it begins to wilt. the seed is formed, and the wildflower plant dies. this is why i dont pick them. it is parallel to having your child taken from you, skinned, and made into a leather hat for somebody that will throw it away after a few hours.





sometimes the plant can grow a new flower if the current one is picked off.

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