"A little more dirt was needed around the roots of the violets, which my caregiver procured from the vegetable garden and added to the flower pot. The snail was not pleased. For the next few days it carefully crept up the side of the pot and directly onto a violet leaf, never touching the garden soil, settling in for the day's snooze perched high in the crown of the plant. Rather abashed, I asked for more help, and the sandy garden soil was exchanged for humus from the snail's own woods. Soon the snail was sleeping beneath the violet leaves again in a soft new hollow."
~ E. Tova Bailey in The Sound of a Wild Snail Eating, p. 18
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