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| 37 | 166 | A plant which has its View more quotes about natural">natural inheritance and its ideal environment, namely, those in which it would flourish and thrive, may be transplanted, twisted, poisoned, starved, stunted, cropped, clipped into unnatural and bizarre shapes, and so on. |
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| 37 | 163 | What does a woman need? What does a woman want? What is good for a woman? Those are surely important questions and yet few people engaged with these issues seem to consider them relevant. |
| 37 | 164 | That, in itself, is interesting. |
| 37 | 165 | Before we proceed two points might be made, one figurative, and one anthropological. |
| 37 | 166 | A plant which has its natural inheritance and its ideal environment, namely, those in which it would flourish and thrive, may be transplanted, twisted, poisoned, starved, stunted, cropped, clipped into unnatural and bizarre shapes, and so on. |
| 37 | 167 | It may continue to live, after a fashion, but then as twisted, poisoned, starved, diminished, stunted, cropped, and clipped into unnatural and bizarre shapes, and so on. |
| 37 | 168 | Too, some people seem to think that is good for plants, and the way they should be, miserable, neurotic, unfulfilled, tortured, lonely, sick, and so on. |
| 37 | 169 | Their motivation for these puzzling views is not clear, but presumably that question is best left unaddressed. |