<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote">Pardon me if this went over the list ages ago when I wasn't looking. This article provides an interesting and fun overview of our beliefs about plant sentience. I particularly like the 2006 observation of plant physiologists who say:  "Our 'fetishization' of neurons, as well as our tendency to equate behavior with mobility, keeps us from appreciating what plants can do." There's also a reference to sagebrush - perhaps this information could help us with restoration efforts?! Enjoy!</div>
<div class="gmail_quote">-Patricia</div><div class="gmail_quote"><br></div><div class="gmail_quote"><br></div><div class="gmail_quote"><h1 id="articlehed" class="" style="border:0px;margin:0px;padding:0px;outline:0px;font-family:neutra-2-display-n9,neutra-2-display-1,'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:25.5px;clear:both;float:left;text-transform:uppercase;color:rgb(0,0,0)">
THE INTELLIGENT PLANT</h1><h2 id="articleintro" style="border:0px;margin:6px 0px 5px;padding:0px;outline:0px;font-family:neutra-2-text-n4,neutra-2-text-1,'Times New Roman',serif;font-weight:400;font-size:16px;float:left;clear:left;line-height:14px;color:rgb(0,0,0)">
Scientists debate a new way of understanding flora.</h2><h4 id="articleauthor" style="border:0px;margin:6px 0px 0px;padding:0px;outline:0px;font-family:neutra-2-text-n4,neutra-2-text-1,'Times New Roman',serif;font-weight:400;float:left;clear:left;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:15px">
<span class="" style="display:block;font-size:13px;text-transform:uppercase">BY <a rel="author" href="http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/bios/michael_pollan/search?contributorName=michael%20pollan" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);text-decoration:none;outline:0px">MICHAEL POLLAN</a></span><span class="" style="font-size:11px;font-family:Arial;text-transform:uppercase;color:rgb(159,159,159);float:left;margin-top:10px;clear:both">DECEMBER 23, 2013</span><span class="" style="font-size:11px;font-family:Arial;text-transform:uppercase;color:rgb(159,159,159);float:left;margin-top:10px;clear:both"><br>
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<br></div><div class="gmail_quote"><br></div><div class="gmail_quote"><br></div><div class="gmail_quote"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:17px;line-height:25px">In 1973, a book claiming that plants were sentient beings that feel emotions, prefer classical music to rock and roll, and can respond to the unspoken thoughts of humans hundreds of miles away landed on the New York </span><i style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:17px;line-height:25px">Times</i><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:17px;line-height:25px"> best-seller list for nonfiction. “The Secret Life of Plants,” by Peter Tompkins and Christopher Bird, presented a beguiling mashup of legitimate plant science, quack experiments, and mystical nature worship that captured the public imagination at a time when New Age thinking was seeping into the mainstream. </span><br>
</div><div class="gmail_quote"><br></div><div class="gmail_quote">Full article:</div><div class="gmail_quote"><a href="http://www.newyorker.com/">http://www.newyorker.com/</a><u></u>reporting/2013/12/23/131223fa_<u></u>fact_pollan?currentPage=all<br>


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