365* New Words a Year [Merriam Webster] (Workman Publishing 5/12/8: anthophilous
anthophilous adj : feeding upon or living among flowers
While this word seems to apply mainly to animals who pollunate flowers, such as parrots and bees, I don't see why we can't extend this to people. The lonely anthophilous neighbor jumped at the chance to decorate our wedding, offering hydrangeas and other in-season flowers from her garden.
Rating 9/10 tulips.
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A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines. With consistency a great soul has simply nothing to do. He may as well concern himself with his shadow on the wall. Speak what you think now in hard words, and to-morrow speak what to-morrow thinks in hard words again, though it contradict every thing you said to-day. — 'Ah, so you shall be sure to be misunderstood.' — Is it so bad, then, to be misunderstood? Pythagoras was misunderstood, and Socrates, and Jesus, and Luther, and Copernicus, and Galileo, and Newton, and every pure and wise spirit that ever took flesh. To be great is to be misunderstood. --Ralph Waldo Emerson, "Self-Reliance"
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