Response to Jen and Michelle

Polland says that tulips are in a way mortal because they "don't reliably come back every year" (79) and they "fall out of favor" (79). Like all living things, they must have an end. Death is inevitable. Pollan practically describes the continuation of flowers in a similar way that humans need to procreate to keep their genes going. In order for the generation of your family to keep going, you need to keep having children. Some plants will survive depending on their abilities and, in a human perspective, immunities.

I think it's harder today for people to plant seeds and harvest things because of the hybridization and genetic engineering that goes on anymore. I don't understand why there has been hybridization. It makes me think "did people not think the flowers were beautiful already." What kind of importance will it bring to people to be able to control something that should be driven by nature? It feeds into our anthropocentric world, that we have to conquer everything. It's like we need to be able to make a  flower into any hue we want just for the sake of wanting it. It's sad that if anything goes extinct anymore, it's mostly likely our fault.