A Kickstarter project wants to extend that love for the defiance of gravity to plant life.
Europe's defiance came after Mr Platini and Sepp Blatter, the Fifa president, faced the end of their careers in football following their suspension for 90 days by Fifa's ethics committee.
" The hat cleaner turned upon old Tom the eye of the Big City, which is an eye expressive of cold and justifiable suspicion, of judgment suspended as high as Haman was hung, of self-preservation, of challenge, curiosity, defiance, cynicism, and, strange as you may think it, of a childlike yearning for friendliness and fellowship that must be hidden when one walks among the "stranger bands.
We are then tempted in defiance to exaggerate the commonness of commonplace things, thereby making them aggressively uncommon.
We are in America, on the margin of one of the largest rivers; an innumerable crowd has gathered, for it is said that a ship is to sail against the wind and weather, bidding defiance to the elements.
