Friend Rick wrote to brag about his compass plant, Silphium terebinthium. "It topped out at about 9.5 feet this year. This is the most flowers it's ever had and it increases dramatically every year."
Whether we and our politicians know it or not, Nature is a party to all our deals and decisions, and she has more votes, a longer memory, and a sterner sense of justice than we do. —Wendell Berry