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a philosophical view of plants

2024-11-06

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My Portuese Working Holiday visa has been approved and I'm going to pick up my passport next week 👏👏👏

I was reading "On the Necessity of Gardening: an ABC of art, botany and cultivation". One of the essays mentioned plant blindness.

Plant blindness is a proposed form of cognitive bias which, in its broadest meaning, is a human tendency to ignore plant species. This includes such phenomena as not noticing plants in the surrounding environment, not recognizing the importance of plant life to the whole biosphere and to human affairs, a philosophical view of plants as an inferior form of life to animals, and/or the inability to appreciate the unique features or aesthetics of plants. - From Wikipedia

This is I think what I've been trying to get at when I describe how my little plant project and learning about L-systems etc. has changed how I see plants. I simply see plants more than I did before.

For now we see through a glass, darkly; but then face to face: now I know in part; but then shall I know even as also I am known.

I read a lot of good stuff in that book, trying to get the most out of it before I returned it. I will put some quotes in later.

I've been listening to a lot of Judeline lately. The last song of her latest albumn is called "Es Dios bueno o sólo es poderoso / Is God good or just poweful" which I think is a great song name and surreal to see on an indie pop album from an artist in her very early 20s. I can't imagine a kiwi or australian artist coming out with a song like that.

listening to

Love Love Love - The Mountain Goats

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