He hesitated only slightly. "Larry teaches plants to grow every day.  I have helped him.  But my people - the Martians, I mean; I grok now that you are my people - teach the plants another way.  In the other hemisphere it is growing colder and the nymphs, those who have stayed alive through the summer, are being brought into the nests for quickening and more growing." He thought. "Of the humans we left at the equator when I came here, one has discorporated and the others are sad."