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and all the men and all the women and all the earths and all the planets. Because if you go deeper and deeper and deeper you will find in a single small flower the whole is involved. You cannot understand it separately. Without the earth what is it? And without the sun what is it? There will be no color without the sun, without the earth there will be no form.
And who knows how many more things are involved in it? Without the stars maybe roses will not be the same. Who knows what pulsations the roses get from the stars? And certainly without the human eye the rose will not be the same. It will not have any color -- the moment you don't look at the rose, it is no more rosy, because the color exists only in relationship with the eye. When there is an eye there is color; without the eye there is no color.
When you go to Niagara and you hear that great sound of the Niagara Falls, it was not there, it jumped into existence the moment you came there -- because without the ears there is no sound. If there is nobody around the Niagara Falls there is no sound, it falls silently. Because how can the sound be created without the ear? For thousands of years Niagara went on falling and falling silently, because there was nobody to hear it. Then there must have entered some adventurous prim-itive, and the moment he came close by, the Niagara burst into great sound. The ear is a must.
Now scientists say, even scientists -- poets have always been saying this, but now even scientists say that when you love a rosebush bigger flowers come to it. Love somehow gives a warmth, nourishment.
In Canada they have been experimenting with what effects music can have on roses. In a certain university the experiment was done; they were surprised, they could not believe it. The same kind of flowers were divided into two parts -- a dozen plants on one side, a dozen plants on another side. One part of the plants was fed with Ravi Shankar's music, and another part with jazz. The plants that were fed upon Ravi Shankar's sitar all started leaning towards the instrument, all leaning -- became fans, all leaning.
And on the other side where jazz was given to the plants
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