Common sense Quote by Michael Pollan

“Plants are not cognizant. When we cut a leaf, we assume that the plant is suffering. But that's our own anthropomorphism about what's going…

— Daniel Chamovitz

Plants don't think. Animals are guided by the power of instinct over which they themselves have no control. Animals have a certain kind of…

— Sterling W Sill

It would never occur to most of us that 'plants' say anything at all, except in terms of what we read into them, or…

— John Hay

No one yet understands the mysterious intelligence within plants or the implications of the idea that nature communicates in a basic chemical language that…

— Terence McKenna

“Plants don't have a brain because they are not going anywhere.”

— Robert Sylwester

Our attitude towards plants is a singularly narrow one. If we see any immediate utility in a plant we foster it. If for any…

— Rachel Carson

The plants that produce visions can function- for those of us who have inherited the New World Order of barren materialism, cut off from…

— Daniel Pinchbeck

This garden is no metaphor - more a task that swallows you into itself, earth using, as always, everything it can.

— Jane Hirshfield

“The scents of nature are largely a chemical conversation between plants and animals and humans merely eavesdrop.”

— Avery Gilbert

We can truly see that consciousness is operating creatively even in biology, even in the evolution of species.

— Amit Goswami

“Quite simply, plants don’t want to be eaten—and who can blame them? Like any living thing, their instinct is to propagate the next generation…

— Steven R. Gundry

It is a fact that plants also have life like animals. But animals are endowed with mind, and nervous systems too while the plants…

— Sathya Sai Baba