Furthering<p>I am haunted by this article and not 100% sure I want to read the book. It's about the botanists trying to preserve the seed bank collection during the Siege of Leningrad.</p><p>"In the end, at least nineteen botanists died inside the institute while having access to seeds, nuts and tubers that could have saved their lives. ‘It wasn’t difficult not to eat the collection,’ Lekhnovich later protested. ‘It was impossible to eat this, your life’s work, the work of the lives of your colleagues.’ Besides, the institute gave them a reason to go on: ‘During the blockade, people died not only from shells and hunger but also because of the aimlessness of their existence. In the most direct way, our work saved us. It invested us in living.’"</p><p><a href="https://archive.ph/GHY5g" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">archive.ph/GHY5g</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p><p><a href="https://convo.casa/tags/History" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>History</span></a> <a href="https://convo.casa/tags/Seeds" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Seeds</span></a> <a href="https://convo.casa/tags/Plants" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Plants</span></a> <a href="https://convo.casa/tags/War" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>War</span></a> <a href="https://convo.casa/tags/Books" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Books</span></a> <a href="https://convo.casa/tags/BookReview" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BookReview</span></a> <a href="https://convo.casa/tags/Scientists" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Scientists</span></a> <a href="https://convo.casa/tags/Science" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Science</span></a> <a href="https://convo.casa/tags/Meaning" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Meaning</span></a> <a href="https://convo.casa/tags/WWII" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WWII</span></a></p>