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"The force that through the green fuse drives the flower"

I was reminded of this quote, title and first line of a poem by Dylan Thomas, this morning as I tried to drive a rebar stake into the ground to mark the boundary of a rose bed. The rebar wouldn't go in: the gray clay was rock hard, the three inches of rain we received a couple of weeks ago apparently utterly forgotten.

And yet this same ground had a vigorous covering of grass, which had sprouted from seed and sent its roots, finer than thread, down into this same hard ground in search of nutrients and a holdfast. How do plants do it? How do these fragile organs force their way through? I don't know. When you think about it, Nature is wonderful.

Comments (2)

  • librarian_gardner_8b_pnw
    last year

    It sure is. Your writing is wonderful too!

    Melissa Northern Italy zone 8 thanked librarian_gardner_8b_pnw
  • Sheila z8a Rogue Valley OR
    last year

    What a wonder, Melissa.

    Melissa Northern Italy zone 8 thanked Sheila z8a Rogue Valley OR