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"As I sat through the winter, the cold in my bones, I thought about the garlic cloves in the frozen ground, waiting, taking note of the deep freeze that gripped the earth like a vise, counting its passage. Perhaps most instructive of all is that plants know how to wait, how to endure the inhospitable, knowing their time has not yet come but will, and that their flourishing is not a question of whether but when."
-- Zoë Schlanger, "The Light Eaters: How the Unseen World of Plant Intelligence Offers a New Understanding of Life on Earth"