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Peter Grima

Oct 14, 2026

57:38
Uh-huh
57:38
... side of botany myself.
57:39
But, um, most importantly, she really embraced her and deepened her own version of botanical study instead of doing that.
57:49
So her observations of flowers actually helped her understand the human experience, and I feel like people often casually say she anthropomorphized flowers, but I firmly think that she was botanicalizing the human experience, that her observations of the botanical world are actually so rich and detailed that she understood the human experience better because of her observations of plants.
58:15
And that, you know, she was watching them, how plants grow in a meadow, and how they interact with their neighbors, how they deal with pollinators, like bees intruding on them, or how they interact with butterflies, receive the sun, mo- how they move during the day.
58:26
These are things that she was observing and then used as devices to explain what she was trying to figure out in her own life.
58:36
Um, and that had a scientific basis.
62:31
That's where you're located, correct? In, in the same area?

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