One afternoon in April 2020, I took an old bamboo rod out of my shed and cut it to a length of 115cm. Stood on the ground, it came about halfway up my chest. I laid it on a scrubby patch of our garden on the island of Aegina, in Greece: one end next to a tough-looking dandelion, the other pointed northwards. Then I dug up the dandelion with a trowel and replanted it at the other end of the stick. A small step for humans, but quite the leap for the dandelion.
2020年4月的一個下午,我從棚子裏拿出一根舊竹竿,把它切成了115釐米的長度。立在地上,它的長度大概是到我胸部高度的一半。我把它擱在花園中的一小片灌木叢生的土地上,花園位於希臘的埃吉納島(Aegina)上。竹竿的一端挨着一株看上去很強韌的蒲公英,另一端朝著北方。隨後我用泥鏟把蒲公英挖了出來,再把它重新種進竹竿另一端的土裏。對人類來說,這是一小步的距離,但對蒲公英而言卻是一次不小的躍進。