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月的一个下午,我从棚子里拿出一根旧竹竿,把它切成了115厘米的长度。立在地上,它的长度大概是到我胸部高度的一半。我把它搁在花园中的一小片灌木丛生的土地上,花园位于希腊的埃吉纳岛(Aegina)上。竹竿的一端挨着一株看上去很强韧的蒲公英,另一端朝着北方。随后我用泥铲把蒲公英挖了出来,再把它重新种进竹竿另一端的土里。对人类来说,这是一小步的距离,但对蒲公英而言却是一次不小的跃进。