"Joy is the anticipation of joy."
From An Unnecessary Woman, Rabih Alameddine
From An Unnecessary Woman, Rabih Alameddine
 "A leaf is the only thing in our known world that can manufacture sugar out of materials -- light and air -- that have never been alive. All the rest of us are secondary users, recycling the stuff the plant has made."
From The Light Eaters: How the Unseen World of Plant Intelligence Offers a New Understanding of Life on Earth, Zoë Schlanger  "Communication implies a recognition of self and what lies beyond it -- the existence of other selves. Communication is the forming of threads between individuals. It's a way to make one life useful to other lives, to make oneself important to other selves. It turns individuals into a community."
From The Light Eaters: How the Unseen World of Plant Intelligence Offers a New Understanding of Life on Earth, Zoë Schlanger  "Nature is not a puzzle waiting to be put together, or a codex waiting to be deciphered. Nature is chaos in motion. Biological life is a spiraling diffusion of possibilities, fractal in its profusion. Every organism, and certainly every plant, has ricocheted out of another fragment of the evolutionary web of green leafy things to variate further. These each are of course still morphing, because that sort of thing never ends, except in extinction."
From The Light Eaters: How the Unseen World of Plant Intelligence Offers a New Understanding of Life on Earth, Zoë Schlanger |
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