RE: A Good Day To Die
September 4, 2014 at 11:44 pm
(This post was last modified: September 4, 2014 at 11:55 pm by naimless.)
I started growing food this year. I had a similar experience when some of my greens bolted.
They were obviously overly-stressed in some way and needed to survive in the only way they knew how - by going to seed early.
Yet as a gardener the common perception is "anything which grows unexpectedly is a weed that needs removed".
I do feel empathy for all of the weeds in my garden.
Just because I, as a human, don't understand all of them, does that give me the right to kill them for aesthetic reasons, or because they don't provide the sweetest nutrition that I wanted...
What if the wild dandelions have more intelligence than the fruit I am trying to grow...
What if the bitter random unknown plants are what the humans really need to let grow and consume to cleanse and yet we just discard them because they don't provide our sugar addiction...
But I agree, the sunny days outside when you are at one with nature on a higher level, they are the best days to both live and die on.
They were obviously overly-stressed in some way and needed to survive in the only way they knew how - by going to seed early.
Yet as a gardener the common perception is "anything which grows unexpectedly is a weed that needs removed".
I do feel empathy for all of the weeds in my garden.
Just because I, as a human, don't understand all of them, does that give me the right to kill them for aesthetic reasons, or because they don't provide the sweetest nutrition that I wanted...
What if the wild dandelions have more intelligence than the fruit I am trying to grow...
What if the bitter random unknown plants are what the humans really need to let grow and consume to cleanse and yet we just discard them because they don't provide our sugar addiction...
But I agree, the sunny days outside when you are at one with nature on a higher level, they are the best days to both live and die on.
