← “Even flowers with thorns?” 🔊✎
← “But then what use are the thorns?”
← “So what use are the thorns?”
← “The thorns are no use at all. The flowers just do it to be mean.”
← “For millions of years, flowers have been making thorns. 🔊✎
← And you don’t think it’s important to understand why the flowers take so much trouble to make thorns which never help them? 🔊✎
← One day, talking of her four thorns, she told him: “If those tigers try to come here with their claws, I’m ready for them!” 🔊✎
← As for the big animals, I’m not scared. I have my thorns.” 🔊✎
← “My flower is ephemeral,” said the little prince to himself, “and she only has four thorns to defend herself against the world! And I have left her all alone!” 🔊✎
← And she’s so weak! And so naïve. She just has four useless little thorns to defend herself against the world…” 🔊✎