Meet Your Creator: Greenkill 2013 November, 2013 | Page 12

MEET YOUR CREATOR: APPRECIATING HASHEM’S GREAT OUTDOORS

Now that’s a dandy
The Dandelion testifies to divine creation

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The bright
yellow of the
dandelion is
not just to
impress us,
but to attract
insects to
pollinate it

W

e can all remember those summer days when the
beautiful dandelions bow gracefully with the
calm wind. However, its bright yellow color is not

merely to impress us, rather to attract
insects to pollinate it. Yet, when it changes
into a seed-ball, it miraculously becomes
completely colorless! At this point in the
dandelion’s life, all it needs is for the wind
to spread out its seeds. Certainly, the wind
does not need color to attract it.

Where did
the dandelion
gain the
knowledge
that its seeds
are
transported
through the
wind?

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nterestingly enough, the stem of the seed-ball is much
taller than the stems of the dandelions that are still in the
flower stage. This is no accident for it needs an open field

of space for its seeds to parachute off. Therefore, it grows above
the heads of the surrounding grass in order to allow this to
happen. For it to fly away, it needs its space. Where did the
dandelion gain this knowledge that its seeds are transported by
means of parachutes? How did they learn that there is something
called wind that will enable its seeds to spread abroad? The truth
is that not only do dandelions know that the winds exist, but they
know how strongly the ordinary wind blows. It grips the seeds
just firmly enough to prevent it from falling off among the
surrounding grass, yet not too firmly to resist an ordinary wind.
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