All the glucose in the world, whether it arrives in your body packaged inside a banana or a slice of wheat bread, was manufactured out of thin air by a plant in the moment after photons from the sun fell upon it. In this way we are, at every moment, brought into conversation with plants, and they with us. Our thoughts, and the products of them—the fabric of our cultures, the direction of our invention—have behind them trillions of plant bodies, each alchemizing the world into existence.
