SEEDS & WEEDS: The Funniest Things People Have Said About GARDENING

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sixth sense, I wonder if we could somehow tune in to that time, to those
guys, in this place. I’d like to think we’d be laughing with them.”
“In geologic time, they were here, like, just a few moments ago. Like
we should still be able to hear the echoes of their voices.”
That night we lay out under the stars, Ol Doinyo Lengai silhouetted
against the dark sky. We reflected on the human story arc, unspooling
over millions of years, humanity diffusing around the world yet ultimately
one family.
“Tomorrow we drive down to Laetoli,” one of us said.
“My thought exactly — to those 3.6-
million-year-old footprints.”
“Maybe they laughed with each
other too.”
“Of course — why not?”
The African sun rose
the next day and we
headed southwest, laying
down footprints of our
own.
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