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oapen-20.500.12657-575262022-07-19T03:07:41Z Intertwined Histories Ellis, Jim Art Poetry Plants Essays bic Book Industry Communication::T Technology, engineering, agriculture How do we understand the boundaries of individual creatures? What are the systems of interdependency that bind all living creatures together? Plants were among the the first to colonize the planet. They created the soil and the atmosphere that made life possible for animals. They are some of the largest and oldest life forms on Earth. In spite of their primacy, Western cultures have traditionally regarded plants as the lowest life forms, lacking mobility, sensation, and communication. But recent research argues that plants move and respond to their environment, communicate with each other, and form partnerships with other species. Art, poetry, and essays by cultural anthropologists, experimental plant biologists, philosophers, botanists and foresters expose the complex interactions of the vibrant living world around us and give us a lens through which we can explore our intertwined histories. 2022-07-18T11:55:14Z 2022-07-18T11:55:14Z 2019 book ONIX_20220718_9781773850917_103 25606891 9781773850917 9781773850924 https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/57526 eng Calgary Institute for the Humanities application/pdf Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International 9781773850917.pdf University of Calgary Press 5c7afbd8-3329-4175-a51e-9949eb959527 9781773850917 9781773850924 120 Calgary open access
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How do we understand the boundaries of individual creatures? What are the systems of interdependency that bind all living creatures together? Plants were among the the first to colonize the planet. They created the soil and the atmosphere that made life possible for animals. They are some of the largest and oldest life forms on Earth. In spite of their primacy, Western cultures have traditionally regarded plants as the lowest life forms, lacking mobility, sensation, and communication. But recent research argues that plants move and respond to their environment, communicate with each other, and form partnerships with other species. Art, poetry, and essays by cultural anthropologists, experimental plant biologists, philosophers, botanists and foresters expose the complex interactions of the vibrant living world around us and give us a lens through which we can explore our intertwined histories.
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