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When we plant a rose seed in the earth,we notice it is small,but we do not criticize it as "rootlees and stemless".We treat it as a seed, ____ (give)it the water and nourishment required ____ a seed.
When it first ____ (shoot up)out of the earth, we don't condemn(指责)it as ____ (mature) and underdeveloped, ____ do we criticize the buds for not being open when they appear. We stand in wonder at the process ____ (take) place, and give the plant the care it needs at each stage of its development.
The rose is a rose from the time it is a seed to the time it dies.Within it,at all times,it contains its whole potential. It seems to be ____ (constant) in the process of change: Yet at each state, at each moment, it is perfectly all right as ____ it is.
A flower is not ____ (good)when it blooms than when it is merely a bud; at each stage it is ____ same thing---a flower in the process of expressing its potential.