The quiet wisdom of plants: What they teach us about living peacefully

Plants bloom and fade in their season. Petals and leaves fall at their appointed time, and the remarkable mystery is that plants prepare the place where a petal will eventually let go, writes the Korean botanist and award-winning botanical illustrator Shin Hye-woo in her book “A Botanist’s Forest Diary.” They produce a substance called lignin along that line, forming a kind of natural seam. When the moment comes, the petal slips away cleanly from the plant, parting at precisely the spot where it

By The Korea Herald