Thank you @agmoore! It was great fun photographing my plants and trying to come up with a story around them. So happy that you looked up more about Darwin. I don't know much about his personal life myself, but I think the old crazy guy would say something like this:
"That rascal Darwin was a stoned ape! He used opium to treat his various illnesses. Today we know just how powerful a substance it is, and how its indescriminate use leads to great suffering. In his day, however, opium was used as medicine, and it was perfectly acceptable for a gentlemen of his stature. He quickly became addicted to it. Anecdotal reports from far out neuronauts indicate that the opiate experience takes one down a soft vegetative reality, where one can easily experience and visualize primitive evolutionary vistas. Victorian poetry is filled with such haunting imagery, and we all know what those poets were up to. For those in the know, it is not beyond the realm of possibility that Darwin's altered mind allowed him to re-live our species evolution through long spans of time, and then after having seen the big picture, it was just a matter of arranging the symbols like pieces of a puzzle. We'll never know for sure, but that's my story, and I'm sticking to it."
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