Jun 29 2009
Are Vines Evil?
Pretty. Wild. But those passion vines climbing our backyard pine tree — are they EVIL? Were I a tree (that could think), I might believe that the vine was cheating: using all the hard growth I had attained to pull its relatively flimsy self up on. Those damn free-loaders!
If you abstain from taking sides, could you say the vine’s strategy in the struggle for existence is instead brilliant?
