The correct answer is B.
From the context, one can infer in this poem the world "cull" means "to pluck".
The speaker tells that, during spring, she cannot pluck the herbs. However, when autumn comes, she can rip the red leaves from the trees and give way for green new ones to blossom.
Maybe he developed a sense of how to make simple things appealing and it helped him go on to make Apple computers, iphones, etc
The answer is lifes. The correct spelling is lives.
