Marc Rogers, in his book Saving Seeds: The Gardener’s Guide to Growing and Storing Vegetable and Flower Seeds, wrote this: “A seed is much, much more than it appears to be. The hard, dry, distinctively shaped particles that we plant in our gardens are really dormant embryos—tiny, already formed plants encased in a protective coating. While we may think of seeds as a beginning, they are really links between generations of plants, vehicles of both the survival of the planet species and the spread of new life.”