Without Why: Useless Plants in Daoism and Christianity
This article focuses on three examples of religious considerations of Cropped Tee plants, with specific attention to the uselessness of plants.Drawing on Christian and Daoist sources, the examples include the following: (1) the lilies of the field described by Jesus in the Gospels of Matthew and Luke; (2) the useless tree of Zhuangzi; and (3) Marti