“Don’t water so much, boy. These plants are like people, they need to be a little scared.”
“They need to be scared?”
Black Mesa nodded. “If the seedlings aren’t scared, they won’t sink their roots deeply into Mother Earth. Then when the droughts come they’ll blow away without a fight. If you want to save them, don’t make their lives easy, force them to prepare for the worst.” He nudged Poor Singer with his elbow. “Hurting makes everybody stronger.”
People of the Silence, p. 265
Out of Babel 
I love Kathleen O’Neal Gear. Very different from Jean Auel but excellent.
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Interesting perspective. Didn’t know you talked to plants. I thought it was only animals (and fossils).
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Talking to fossils, ha ha, was that me?
Why yes, I do talk to plants. Mostly begging them not to die.
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That’s why it’s a good idea to punch random people in the stomach as you walk down the street. Just think how much you’re helping them 😀
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I heard there was some writer who would shoot at his friends to give them that near-death experience.
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Wow, that’s going a bit further down that road than I was thinking 🙂
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(looks at my dying plants) Huh.
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Not THAT scared!
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