Lucinda M. Vardey Dispels Some Common Myths Concerning Living Green Organisms
“Plants are the young of the world, vessels of health and vigor; but they grope ever upward toward consciousness…”
–Ralph Waldo Emerson
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In the last century or so, we have made considerable progress in recognizing and interpreting the intelligence of all plants. Before scientists formulated their research, poets and naturalists had fathomed features of this intelligence. The most notable of contributions were made by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe in The Metamorphosis of Plants (1790) and by Charles Darwin in his later books (written between 1862 and 1880).
