When I was a kid, my mother would give me coconut sprouts to eat, whenever they were found inside coconuts we bought. Then I went to college and it stopped. Then I stopped eating coconuts and hence did not get to even see those sprouts. But I still recall - they used to be perhaps 1-2 cm i n diameter. The other day someone gifted a dry coconut to my wife. When we opened it, it had a huge sprout in it, measuring about 5 cm in diameter. The coconut was perfectly dry, and the sprout was looking perfectly healthy.
'That is the reproduction instinct,' I thought. 'This coconut has dried up, but it has somehow nurtured its sprout.'
'That is the reproduction instinct,' I thought. 'This coconut has dried up, but it has somehow nurtured its sprout.'
