When you say thorns, I will hope it's not offtopic because we still talk about roses, I've always believed that thorns never existed in the garden of Eden and that this came with the fall of man. Thorns are like sin, they have a separation and animosity element in them, and murder because they draw blood. And it says "A virtuous woman is a crown to her husband" in Proverbs. So ponder this wicked, murderous, thorny crown of shame, that the mankind is. Yet He carried us on His head and endured all the shame to transform us into a bride, like Hosea endured all the shame and disgrace and mockery from his wife until she was transformed... Jesus is particularly good at gardening and getting rid of thorns