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RT @nick_routledge: @JillianHazel @Plough Beautiful. The plant over-harvested, there were 'Save Our Dandelions' societies in the UK in the 50's. Notable, as such, that dandelion's status as America's most reviled plant, is entirely a constructed phantasm - a demon of the commoditized imagination. ?s=20

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Nick Routledge@nick_routledge · 19 May 2021

@PauletteSteeves For the curious, an 'illuminated manuscript' on the medicinal ecology of dandelion, from 2005. "...Dandelion is one of the most reliable alteratives in the materia medica of the world's temperate zones - an alterative is a plant or procedure..." .pdf here: bit.ly/1zJmFWs

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Quoted by@pauljpastor She turned to the sunlight, And shook her yellow head, And whispered to her neighbour: “Winter is dead.” It's one of Milne’s quiet little personifications of spring— the daff as messenger, announcing resurrection sideways, through neighborly intimacy rather than proclamation.Quoted by@Plough 1/2 "Weed” is a war-grammar of negative baptism. The dicamba treadmill isn’t accidental; it’s a weaponized purity liturgy, neighbor against neighbor. "Weeds show us a different way, an alternative to our efforts at control"—neighborliness rising from as much as coming to ground.