There are many reasons why recognizing the sentience and intelligence of plants may have positive implications for the future of humanity. For one, it helps us all to transcend the dominant worldview that non-human life forms are best defined in strictly mechanistic terms, and that attributing a “life essence” or consciousness to them is a form of magical thinking.

~ Sayer Ji

Tropical Jungle, Thailand – photo by Quickshooting, bigstockphoto.com