Pg. 25 “...the words of the trees and the wind. She often spoke to falling seeds and said, “Ah hope you fall on soft ground,” because she had heard seeds saying that to each other as they passed.”
The seeds can refer to the women, or Nanny, who believed they needed to marry for protection. Landing on soft ground would be finding a suitable person to marry and be able to fall back on. Nanny, before she dies, wants Janie to land on soft ground and marry someone that she believes will give her a good life. The ground however, being Logan Killicks, wasn’t so soft and didn’t end up being what she wanted or expected. Janie ‘knew things that nobody had ever told her’, meaning that she found a year of answers to her questions - she learned it on her own. She often spoke to people, women, and told them to be careful and think about what they do before they make decisions - fall on soft ground that will be comfortable to live with. She had heard her grandmother say it (more preach it), but Janie spoke it in a way that love and marriage was as a whole without the benefits that a man could give a woman.
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