“The most striking thing about this relationship is that we need them, but they don’t need us. We humans are utterly dependent on plants to cover all our needs: fuel, shelter, clothing, medicine, the petrochemical cornucopia, and, ofcourse, food. (Even meat is made possible because of plants.) In contrast, plant communities do just fine without people... What makes plants so generous? What makes us so brutal? Somewhere along the way we lost the experience of unity.”