It was transformational to read.
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I was reminded yet again of this coming back from a recent trip (to Garden Writers Association's annual meeting).
Returning into the Greenville-Spartanburg airport, visible through the small jet window, there were subdivisions, barren of any actual plantings, with red clay subsoil visible through the window.