“Random Quote on Abortion”
Did you know that we can give plants abortion?
Let me show a quote from Humboldt:
“In the mission of San Fernando, a tree which gives a peculiar physiognomy to the landscape, is the piritu or pirijao palm. Its trunk, armed with thorns, is more than sixty feet high; its leaves are pinnated, very thin, undulated, and frizzled towards the points. The fruits of this tree are very extraordinary; every cluster contains from fifty to eighty; they are yellow like apples, grow purple in proportion as they ripen, two or three inches thick, and generally, from abortion, without a kernel. Among the eighty or ninety species of palm-trees peculiar to the New Continent, which I have enumerated in the Nova Genera Plantarum Aequinoctialum, there are none in which the sarcocarp is developed in a manner so extraordinary. The fruit of the pirijao furnishes a farinaceous substance, as yellow as the yolk of an egg, slightly saccharine, and extremely nutritious. It is eaten like plantains or potatoes, boiled or roasted in the ashes, and affords a wholesome and agreeable aliment. The Indians and the missionaries are unwearied in their praises of this noble palm-tree, which might be called the peach-palm. We found it cultivated in abundance at San Fernando, San Balthasar, Santa Barbara[…]”
It’s on pages 705-706; the link to Humboldt’s book is below my critical commentary.
The cultivation itself becomes a kind of term limit.
People expect to eat good food.
A garden involves management over its weeds and flowers.
In fact, pulling a weed from the ground is a type of planetary abortion.
Seeds are placed in desired locations.
We want flowers to grow and become beautiful.
By Humboldt’s analysis, a harvest could make or break an entire village.
Diseases could spread like wildfire.
Native Americans were often very good hunters in their trade.
Of course, there’s a fine line between abortion for plants and abortion for humans.
Humans are really special creatures across the globe.
Lawns are treated in big city areas.
Farmers choose what to grow based on conveniences in nature.
How does the sun come up?
How does the sun come down?
Doesn’t it seem like the whole sky can be called the sun?
We even have an old song from the music world:
“Walking on Sunshine” by Katrina & The Waves.
Giving birth is more of a sensitive subject for humans.
Now, we can all agree that we mostly can’t strike a conversation with plants.
Are the farmer and his plants exactly the same?
A human can be called a “virgin” and there’s also “virgin soil” on Earth.
So, it looks like these anti-abortion arguments are instinctive and somewhat reasonable.
Can a woman be a flower in her mind?
If so, why not let her decide on what’s at stake with giving birth?
Excerpt From: Alexander von Humboldt. “Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 2.” Apple Books. https://books.apple.com/us/book/personal-narrative-travels-to-equinoctial-regions-america/id506032342
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