[UA] Re: Gardener

[Bailey Watts]

>I should think that the very essence of Gardener (as opposed to 
>tree-hugger)
>is all about cultivating, transforming and harvesting plants. Therefore a
>taboo preserving plants for their own sake or prohibiting the use of plants
>for anything seems wrong to me. How about not being allowed to let plants 
>go
>to waste - which includes material made from plants, therefore a rope made
>from hemp is to be preferred over synthetics; vegetables as food rather 
>than
>meat or dairy products; you get the idea.

I don't know about that.  I know a few gardeners and that doesn't seem to 
fit them at all.  I prefer to base my archetypes on something I see rather 
than just the abstract concept.  My picks for people who channel the 
Gardener are those orchid cultivating freaks.  Potheads who are obsessed 
with breeding the bud with maximum THC.  The people who enter their 
watermelons in the county fair.

Historically I see Johnny Appleseed as previously mentioned and George 
Washington Carver.

All are focused on one specific plant, either in use or cultivation.  The 
only one who would extoll the virtues of a hemp rope over a nylon rope is 
the guy obsessed with weed.  Carver would probably consider the hemp rope 
and the nylon rope equal, but consider the possibility of a peanut rope.

Bailey
"But I was only issuing orders!" -Milosevic

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