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“Please make a list of every possession you consider essential to your life.
I take a deep breath and pick up my pen.”
― The Girl Before
I take a deep breath and pick up my pen.”
― The Girl Before
“There are strawberries growing among my bulbs. Wild ones, seeded from God knows where, poking their pale little fingers among the tulips and crocuses. Wild strawberries are invasive; not quite as invasive as dandelions, but those little heart-shaped leaves conceal a powerful hunger for conquest, sending their runners everywhere, each one an outpost preparing itself for a future invasion.
And yet I cannot bring myself,père,to curb their cheery exuberance. Though more or less worthless in terms of fruit, the little white flowers and pretty leaves make excellent ground count cover, keeping the thistles and ragwort at bay without suppressing my daffodils. And besides, in summer, there may be enough of the tiny red berries to put on a tart, or flavor a glassful of sweet white wine. That is, if the birds do not steal them first. They too enjoy their sweetness.
Those strawberries will creep, Reynaud,said Narcisse's voice in my mind.Let them stay, and in a month, your beds will be nothing but strawberries.”
― The Strawberry Thief
And yet I cannot bring myself,père,to curb their cheery exuberance. Though more or less worthless in terms of fruit, the little white flowers and pretty leaves make excellent ground count cover, keeping the thistles and ragwort at bay without suppressing my daffodils. And besides, in summer, there may be enough of the tiny red berries to put on a tart, or flavor a glassful of sweet white wine. That is, if the birds do not steal them first. They too enjoy their sweetness.
Those strawberries will creep, Reynaud,said Narcisse's voice in my mind.Let them stay, and in a month, your beds will be nothing but strawberries.”
― The Strawberry Thief
“...a plant can only function as a true “native” while it is interacting with the community that historically helped shape it.”
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“That's a tree of heaven, my friend said. I know because I, too, got curious about it, and looked it up. Botanists call it an invasive species. But aren't we all?”
― Open City
― Open City
“You can’t escape the cultural associations embodied by plants. You can’t have one without the other.”
― Devoured: The Extraordinary Story of Kudzu, the Vine That Ate the South
― Devoured: The Extraordinary Story of Kudzu, the Vine That Ate the South
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