I’ve been thinking a lot lately about plants and humans and how different we are. I went to the Christchurch botanical gardens again on tuesday and saw how diverse all of the different foliage is and became a little upset about how humans are so visually “boring” compared to all of the different varieties there are in the plant genus and especially the orchid family. We are practically the same looking across the world, just a little bit different in tones and structure but when you look at orchids, which are all in the same family, there are hundreds if not thousands of different varieties that all have different structures that have different purposes. Why haven’t we evolved to form to fit suited to our exact environment like plants have? Humans move around a lot more than plants do obviously which affects the time needed to evolve but what about generations of people who’ve lived in the same place? It just blows my mind that in all of the years that humans have been alive we have only figured out how to build cars and computers and artificially change ourselves, but we haven’t figured out how to grow petals or gills or create anything different within ourselves.