Long before Critical Plant Studies gained currency and theorists started believing that plants are intelligent creatures with remarkable resilience and adaptability, Mistral's writings on plants and fruits, written in the early decades of the twentieth century, considered them as creations with their own unique personality and special emotional qualities and characteristics. In her remarkable poem Decalogue of The Artist, Gabriela Mistral (1889-1957), the Chilean poet-educator and humanist wrote that "Each act of creation shall leave you humble, for it is never as great as your dream and always inferior to that most marvellous dream of God which is nature". The indiscriminate destruction of nature has resulted in setting off unprecedented natural calamities.
Man's relentless and exploitative plundering of the earth and her resources continues, despite the raging pandemic and its virulent progress. The impact of human avarice and interference with nature and natural patterns is irreversible and catastrophic. Life in the Anthropocene era is further complicated by the presence of a global pandemic that does not show any sign of abating in the near future.
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