Commonly known as Horsetail Plant, uncommonly known as Equisetum laevigatum, today I was cleaning out some of the fallen stems from our half-barrel fountain and was impressed with this plant’s primitiveness. With no leaves and no flowers and an unstoppable urge to propagate rampantly, horsetail reminded me of the ancient insects that do the same. Scorpions, centipedes, millipedes and cockroaches are essentially unchanged since their origins how many millennia ago. There must be something awfully perfect about this life form for it to continue unchanged forever. We humans are still going through evolution from, for example, thin to fat. From hairy to smooth. From dark to light, and light to dark. From ignorant to…well….
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