"I must have guessed with the intuitive sympathy that exists between friends as close as you and I." Without loosening his grip, he gives a gentle pat: It's all right, I won't be careless with you. "That's why we need to put more work into the gardens. When people see flowers, their belligerence is halted by genetic memories of the viciousness of their days in nature, and they are shocked into gentility when they realize that all violence they partake in now pales compared to the visceral existence their ancestors knew."