Carlota Rivera

“…But scientists decided long ago that plants were deaf and mute, locked in isolation without communication.  The possibility of conversation was summarily dismissed.  Science pretends to be purely rational, completely neutral, a system of knowledge-making in which the observation is independent of the observer.  And yet the conclusion was drawn that plants cannot communicate because they lack the mechanisms that animals use to speak.  The potentials for plants were seen purely throughout the lens of animal capacity.” – Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer