Well, you know, this is the new wrinkle in people's relationship with plant. And then I realized well, what if… So from the flower's point of view, the bumblebee is this credulous gullible animal, and how would we look to our plants… from our plant's point of view? And I realize we're much the same we're more like the bumblebee than we think. But, in fact, it's the flower that has tricked the bumblebee into doing the work for him, to take his pollen from flower to flower to flower. But in fact, I realized maybe they had induced me to help them, because, you know, the bumblebee breaks into the flower, finds the nectar, thinks he's making off with the goods and thinks he's getting the better of the deal with the flower. And like the bumblebee, I thought these plants were here for my benefit, you know, all the plants in the garden I was growing. Like the bumblebee, I was disseminating the genes of one species, a potato instead of a leek, say, rather than another. I… One day in the garden I was watching a bumblebee alongside me while I was sewing seeds and thought, "well, what do I have in common with a bee as a gardener?" and realized more than I realized. I mean, the premise of the book is very, very simple.
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