Our son is lucky enough to go to a school that has its own bamboo forest, a completely magical space that can enchant adults just as much as children. The scale of the forest and the wondrous passageways through the bamboo take you completely out of your immediate world and place you not simply in nature, but nature at its most primal. There is for me something unique about bamboo. I love all plants, and some people prefer a palette of colors with flowers all around, but the swaying green and golden-dry bamboo shoots and leaves of any species (and there are almost 1500 species of bamboo in the world) stir my spirit in a way that is quite profound. Watch the extraordinary "Bamboo Forest" fight sequence (on YouTube ) from Ang Lee's masterful Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon for a sense of the scale of bamboo in the wild, and its beauty. As someone with a passion for gardening, I also enjoy growing bamboo - although it is a plant that you must be wary of, sinc
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