the best of plants
I used to think insects would walk along tree branches and *poof* become a leaf. I misunderstood buds for bugs.
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I used to believe that popcorn kernals were the seeds of popcorn trees. I tried to plant them once.
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My mum told me that if I picked dandelions that I would wet my knickers.
I used to believe that all things people eat or use (money and cars) all came from trees or plants i never realized otherwise until i was about 6 years old. I found this out by asking my mom how a tree could hold a car!! I alos figured it out by asking my dad why he went to work if he could just get money off a tree.
well...when i was less then 10 i used to fight with bushes.it was a kind of game...plants were my enemies and i used to cut them with a stick.bigger were liders and my whorse opponents...sometimes flowers, and young trees...i was a cruel warrior...;0
I thought that wood was made out of people. So when my dad insisted on me helping him nail wood together, I would say "sorry" each time I would hit the nail into the people.
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one time i was on a boat and it was windy and i asked "How can it be windy without any trees?" i always used to think that squrels used to control wind
I used to believe that when you plant cow dung you will grow spinach.I saw that at school.I think that was after they ( student )planted the spinach seed and I was not there.I only saw them them planting cow dung.
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I used to believe that sea anemones could reach out and grab people.
one day, after eating an apple, I planted the seeds in the middle of my garden... afterwards I was so afraid that the next morning, trees would have grown that I spend hours trying to find them... boy my parents did laught at this one
I was always told that if you held a buttercup flower under your chin and it reflected yellow then that meant you liked the taste of butter.
As a kid, my little cousin had poison ivy, and I was told that I'd get it too if he touched me. Needless to say he chased me around his house all day, and I was shocked when he caught me, tagged me, and I didn't immediately start itching or break out in hives.
There was tree outside my house when I was younger that I believed was Mother Nature because I thought the branches made a face. I said hi to her all the time, so she would be happy and make it snow.
There was a small forest and a lake near my home and there was a huge tree with a hole in it and all the kids believed that it's the gate way to hell. One girl told us that she entered it and saw weird things and barely escaped and we was thinking she is so cool because of it...
I used to believe…
that houses grew from the groung like plants
I used to believe that power lines were what held the trees up. The more lines there were, the more likely the tree was to fall, and if the tree had grown around the lines then that proved that they were working! Thoughts of a five-year-old staring out the backseat car window!
I thought if you sneezed on poison ivy then you will get a rash all over your body
I thought that grass seed had magical powers and would sprinkle it on things to make things happen. When it didn't, I got confused.
I used to believe that sticks and tawigs had feelings and Iused to cry when they snapped in half!
When i was little i used to believe that mother nature was a rich woman who went around the world planting seeds to make babies!
Up until I was in the 7th Grade, I used to believe that corn grew in the ground, not on the corn stalks.