The power of plants than with their beauty — with the power, that is, to change us in various ways, for good and for ill.

I sometimes think we’ve allowed our gardens to be bowdlerized, that the full range of their powers and possibilities has been sacrificed to a cult of fruit prettiness that obscures more dubious truths about nature, our own included.

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