Re: Plant Health?

Tim,
        I confess that I was feeling irritable when I posted that message
last night.  I regretted sending it five seconds after I pushed the send
button.  *However*, there was a serious issue tucked within my statement
about 'healthy' plants. I'm too tired to detail my points tonight but I'll
revisit the subject the day after tomorrow.
Jerry Heverly, Oakland, CA


At 5:58 PM 8/9/99, Tim Longville wrote:
>Jerry: I strongly suspect you of just chucking in a firework to see
>the dogs bark....(and most of your other points I can nod along to
>quite happily)....but never let it be said I failed to rise to a
>provocation. Ok. So what's tendentious about the notion of plant
>health? Or the notion of health as applied to any living thing, come
>to that? What's sentience got to do with, as Tina might well have
>sung? If our living (sentient or nonsentient) thing ceases to be
>alive, it's dead. If it's alive, it's either more or less healthy,
>depending on how near to  or far from (a) life, (b) death. Hardly
>seems controversial. Care to explain why it might be?
>
>
>Tim Longville
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