Fionnáin quoted Through Vegetal Being by Michael Marder
In reality, the summer and even the autumn are preferred to the spring in the West, probably because our culture is a masculine one and the stress is put on production, through which man can compete with nature. Instead of celebrating and helping the natural growing and blooming, he endeavors to do better than nature itself thrugh his fabrication (e.g., Aristotle, Physics, B1). He tries to master the natural potential to substitute his own power for that of nature. He thus parlyzes the natural life and production by adapting them to his own plans instead of letting nature grow in accordance with its rhythms and its fecundity. More and more, he strives to intervene in this process, to force nature to produce more and at an accelerated artificial rhythm.
Luce Irigaray's section, chapter 5, Living at the Rhythm of the Seasons