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leaves. In a building con-
structed by human beings,

the elements that hold the
building up (studs and
beams) and the water sys-
tem are built separately. It
is a case of marvelous de-

sign that, in the case of
plants, these two things
happen at one and the
same time."

Kareem was think-
ing: "This is really
a wonderful sys-

tem. I wonder
… it's as if there
was a calendar or
a clock hidden in-
side a plant that lets
it do the same

things all the time
without getting con-
fused. For example,
every spring the
flowers bloom and

every fall the
leaves drop off
the trees. How
does that hap-
pen, Grandpa?"

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