I did not know that tulips were useless, that insects shun them, or that they provide no benefit besides being pretty. I did not know that but it seems appropriate since this is the flower that caused the speculative market crash in Holland in the 17th century, a time when huge fortunes were lost during the "tulip mania." Among minerals, the one that is famously the object of speculative greed is gold. How many lives have been ruined by a lust for gold? Gold among the common metals is probably the most useless. Nothing particularly useful is made of gold. No tools or weapons or machines or any utilitarian object I can think of is made of gold. It's useless but it's pretty, it's molded into jewelry or it's used as a decorative coating on things made of base metals or wood. So it's interesting, and it makes weird kind of sense, that very valuable things need to be useless. This may be true of people as well.
I did not know that tulips were useless, that insects shun them, or that they provide no benefit besides being pretty. I did not know that but it seems appropriate since this is the flower that caused the speculative market crash in Holland in the 17th century, a time when huge fortunes were lost during the "tulip mania." Among minerals, the one that is famously the object of speculative greed is gold. How many lives have been ruined by a lust for gold? Gold among the common metals is probably the most useless. Nothing particularly useful is made of gold. No tools or weapons or machines or any utilitarian object I can think of is made of gold. It's useless but it's pretty, it's molded into jewelry or it's used as a decorative coating on things made of base metals or wood. So it's interesting, and it makes weird kind of sense, that very valuable things need to be useless. This may be true of people as well.
Wow...80 degrees in mid-April in Ohio? That surprised me. I love tulips. Lovely photos.