I could only speak in the smallest, most intimate circles about the real reasons which made me undertake the changeover of the plants for certain lines of production for I had to expect that many people would not understand me.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
My relationship to plants becomes closer and closer. They make me quiet; I like to be in their company.
For many years, I hated nature. As a student, I refused to put a plant anywhere - a living plant, that is. Dead plants were OK.
If we had paid no more attention to our plants than we have to our children, we would now be living in a jungle of weed.
Before I started writing about food, my focus was really on the human relationship to plants. Not only do plants nourish us bodily - they nourish us psychologically.
My feeling was, you plant some seeds. If they grow, great; if they don't, you don't take it personally. Not my problem; I just kept planting. Just like a farmer.
I mean, we're really making a quantum change in our relationship to the plant world with genetic modification.
Gardeners instinctively know that flowers and plants are a continuum and that the wheel of garden history will always be coming full circle.
We took a plant that was being closed by a big company thinking there was no good use for it, and we came in with a different perspective. We bought some used equipment, as simple as we could.
It was very important thousands of years ago to categorize things. I can eat that plant, I can't eat that plant. Or this tribe, not that tribe. We don't have to do that anymore - we have processed food now!
Reason clears and plants the wilderness of the imagination to harvest the wheat of art.