Flower Vs. Power.

Fraga had decided the buckwheat was hers to protect. As we paused, Fraga noted that if the government had funded more studies of this rare plant in the 1990s, after Tiehm had surveyed it, she'd be more prepared to make a case for it to those, unlike her and Donnelly, who don't instinctively feel an emotional connection to a plant living on a remote Nevada ridge. To Fraga, the value of a plant is rooted not in beauty or usefulness, or even curiosity and wonder, but in the fact that a species exists uniquely on this earth. When Donnelly thought about giving up, Fraga reminded him there were still plants left to save. [Extracted from the article]