"Can't you...keep them inside or something?" Sure, plants died outside in the winter, but there were greenhouses and stuff, or you could just keep them inside in the winter. "Or can you bring them back to life?" He thought maybe some people could do things like that.
"I saw way too many suffer back home. And I saw way too many die."
He hadn't, really, not before the last time he went home. But he'd seen enough.