Lakshmi: I know that wildflowers are threatened because of the reduced number of suitable spaces where they can grow and that people should generally leave them where they are growing  This large field, however, is full of plants of one wildflower species, and it would be all right for me to take just one plant, since there are so many
Malini: There will not be many there in the future if many people act on your principle
accusing Lakshmi of improper motives instead of responding to Lakshmi's argument