The Plant Whisperer pt II

Last Tuesday I was leafing through the latest Plant Annual looking at pictures mostly, when I vame accross an article on high-yeild tomatoes. Forcing plants to produce fruit is just wrong. Plants can be sharing, caring individuals and want to help. They need desperately to spread their seed and they want you to enjoy it... They really do. But you can't keep spraying and slpaying them like you do. It takes time. No Fir ever complained about being turned into a house. They are interested in archetecture - it's in their roots. They particularly appreciate organic structures which take into account their inner strength and esthetic charm. The Haida revere wood for these very reasons and allow their story-poles to topple eventually, as all living things must do.

Drums. boats, furniture - the list goes on. Books. Ever read a book? The glasses on your face not only don't suit you but were once little bi-valves getting along quite nicely until time ground them down and Karl Lagerhead sketched up a design. Well, you get the picture I hope... Even bi-valves gotta eat. Fast food? A French-fry is no more a plant than the Leafs are a hockey team. I saw a movie once where these astronauts go ahead in time and it turns out the place is inhabited by apes but it left me empty because it still wasn't clear as to wether they were carnivorous or not.

But I'm not here to lecture, just to pass some things along. Hybrids? What're ya going to do? I tried to enjoy some toast while I was reading and a crispy bit scratched the roof of my mouth so like, did some grain try to attack me for turning it into a mutant? I was just doing my bit to return it to the sea. Aquatics? Don't go there... except for the floaty stuff. Any deeper and you are the food. Just stay away.