The thing which Wilcox might say we needed to do if we wanted to harvest flowers rather than thorns is:
- D. Have firm resolve and determination
Based on the given text, we can see that the speaker is talking about working hard if we wanted to "harvest flowers" instead of harvesting thorns which denotes difficulty.
<h3>Denotative meaning</h3>
This refers to the implied meaning of a word, phrase or situation and is not the first meaning of the word as used in the context.
Therefore, the correct answer is option D
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