HARGREAVES: Mister Dunbar of the World Ecology Bureau, sir.
(Hargreaves leaves.)
CHASE: I don’t think I’ve had the pleasure. And what is your Bureau doing about bonsai?
DUNBAR: Bonsai, Mister Chase?
CHASE: Mutilation and torture, Mister Dunbar. The hideous, grotesque Japanese practice of miniaturising shrubs and trees. What is your Bureau doing about that?
DUNBAR: Well, I
CHASE: No answer. You are concerned about the fate of the blue whale, and the natterjack toad, but the loveliest, most defenceless part of creation, the great kingdom of plant life receives no protection at all.
Should we, too, regard bonsai as hideous, grotesque mutilation and torture?
Would the alien be of like mind with Harrison Chase in “The Seeds of Doom”?
Should we, too, regard bonsai as hideous, grotesque mutilation and torture?