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Subject: Re: Talking Nasty to Plants
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Date: Thu, 13-Mar-86 09:39:53 EST
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Although some people are adept at sustaining inconsistent attitudes,
it is difficult to be an effective caregiver while roundly cursing
and chastising a potted plant.  It tends to distract one from the
attention needed to ensure that the plant has all the right environmental
conditions to flourish.  So talking nice to your plants may not be
the direct and immediate cause of their well-being, but the associated
positive attitude may go a long way in helping one to focus attention
on such things as right water, right sunlight, right feeding, right
leaf-washing, etc.  (There are 8 rights that a plant is entitled to,
right?  What the devil are the other 4, now?)

--Barry Kort  ...ihnp4!hounx!kort