By popular request, here is a picture of my baby tomato, flourishing on my ladypad balcony. I thought it apt to share this wonderful quote as well. Go and grow something will you? It's super-fun.
"Evidence now supports the vision of the poet and the philosopher that plants are living, breathing, communicating creatures, endowed with personality and the attributes of the soul. It is only we, in our blindness, who have insisted on considering them automata. Most extraordinary, it now appears that plants may be ready, willing, and able to cooperate with humanity in the Herculean job of turning this planet back into a garden from the squalor and corruption..."
- The Secret Life of Plants by Peter Tompkins and Christopher Bird
Beautiful quote and beautiful Tom.
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it now appears that plants may be ready, willing, and able to cooperate with humanity in the Herculean job of turning this planet back into a garden from the squalor and corruption..."
Hippies.....the both of us!
I know, that line is the best bit! I'm an urban hippie, you're a redneck hippie - same master family, different breed. Ha ha ha!
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