Blindboy
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And I had a... It's not just about...
Seeing cool things, right?
It's... When I first planted native indigenous wildflower, which is fucking hard to get, unfortunately, there's one website, and it's very difficult to order that seed.
It's quite difficult.
He wants you to write a check and send it in the post.
But, like, it's the real deal.
When you go to B&Q and look for wildflower seed...
It's not like native wildflower seed.
It's from Poland or some of it's from America.
And what I learned with that is when you plant it, you do get wildflowers, but they might die that season and not regenerate.
But if it's literal indigenous wildflower seed, you can personally help an ecosystem.
But I had wildflowers out my back garden, only about six foot tall.
And a year later, I started to see insects that I had never seen in my fucking life that I didn't even know existed in Limerick.
And there they were in this tiny spot.
It's brilliant.
And it was the fact that they showed up gave me hope.
That's what was important.
When I felt doing something about the climate is pointless.
When you see nature appear spontaneously, it's phenomenal.
Like one of the most beautiful facts you ever told me.