How Flowers Made Our World Quotes

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― David George Haskell, How Flowers Made Our World: The Story of Nature's Revolutionaries

“We humans are causing a mass extinction, a collective act of stupendous harm and disrespect for the living Earth. But we will not have the last word. Flowers made our world, and they will remake a new one when the human frenzy of biotic annihilation is spent.”
― David George Haskell, How Flowers Made Our World: The Story of Nature's Revolutionaries

“Gardening puts us in intimate touch with the earthy, green troubles of the living world, from failed plantings, uncooperative weather, difficult soils, and the balance of control and acceptance that every “pest” and “weed” challenges us with. Bound up with these difficulties are experiences of beauty, fruitfulness, and the pleasures of labor rewarded. A garden is a place to live into those tensions, heartbreaks, and joys. That plant breeding and chemicals add a few more twists to the plot hardly breaks the overall narrative. Can we both celebrate floral beauty and ask better of ourselves?”
― David George Haskell, How Flowers Made Our World: The Story of Nature's Revolutionaries