Watermelons

Watermelon

Watermelon (Citrullus lanatus var. lanatus, family Cucurbitaceae) is a vine-like (scrambler and trailer) flowering plant originally from southern Africa.

Quotes

• That was the hardest part, I admit, but I had a
  kind of dark foreknowledge of what it would be like.
  Everything, from eating watermelon or going to the bathroom
  or just standing on a subway platform, lost in thought
  for a few minutes, or worrying about rain forests,
  would be affected, or more precisely, inflected
  by my new attitude. I wouldn't be preachy,
  or worry about children and old people, except
  in the general way prescribed by our clockwork universe.
  
  • John Ashbery, "My Philosophy of Life" (1995)

• The fish has too many bones
  and the watermelon too many seeds.
  • Charles Reznikoff, "The Old Man" (1969)

• Green Buddhas
  On the fruit stand.
  We eat the smile
  And spit out the teeth.
  
  • Charles Simic, "Watermelons" (1974)

• To cut with a sharp knife a bright green watermelon on a big scarlet plate of a summer afternoon. Ah, is this not happiness?
  • Lin Yutang, The Importance of Living (1937), "Chin's Thirty-three Happy Moments", p. 134