 "It is this plenitude and mystery that I love -- not only the stories I know but also perhaps even more all the stories I can never know, only sense, fleetingly, as they pulse around me and then move on."
From The Long Run: A Creative Inquiry, Stacey D'Erasmo  "It's a way of moving. It's motion freed from narrative, just the thing itself."
From The Long Run: A Creative Inquiry, Stacey D'Erasmo  "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 |
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