> Is that an _emotional_ response? I guess it is. But I can hear my botanist side saying, “That’s not an emotion. That’s just a response.” But I think we can dr

> Is that an _emotional_ response? I guess it is. But I can hear my botanist side saying, “That’s not an emotion. That’s just a response.” But I think we can draw these parallels. It comes down to language again, to how we apply this language to look at these responses in plants. ... [W]hen you go and whack off the top of a plant ... Its genes respond. It starts producing these chemicals. How is that different than us all of a sudden producing a whole bunch of norepinephrine? > Indigenous people have long known that plants will communicate with each other. This is... postmodernist in the colloquial sense, and then straight-up Noble Savage theory? I truly believe that we can't fuck-yea-science ourselves into better respecting and spending more time with trees and nature. This will never catch on, and I hope I'm right.