RECIPROCAL NATURE PROMPT

Vegetables Are the Edible and Nutritious Parts of Plants

And they are beautiful as well

William J Spirdione
Reciprocal
Published in
3 min readJan 26, 2023

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Vegetables are the parts of plants eaten by people and animals. We all know they are healthy to consume. We shouldn’t really have to be told. We, humans, have been eating vegetables supplemented sometimes with animal products since we became human. And a lot longer than that. There would be no animal life on the planet without our sun’s power harnessed by plants’ chlorophyll.

There would be not enough oxygen to breath either.

Photo by William J Spirdione.

Vegetables' bright colors attract the hunter-gatherer inside us.

Supplementing this immediate attraction with knowledge of what is poisonous or unpalatable.

Photo by William J Spirdione

I have grown vegetables for most of my life.

I had my own small yet productive garden even as a ten or eleven-year-old boy. Back when I wouldn’t eat any vegetables that weren’t cooked beyond…

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William J Spirdione
Reciprocal

William J Spirdione is a poet who writes sonnets and more about nature and the humans within it.