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Robin Wall Kimmerer — The Intelligence of Plants

On Being with Krista Tippett

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Plants Are Persons, Not Persons

In the potawatomi language, living beings would all be animates. Anything that was alive in the Potawatomi languages is called a "person" In western culture, we think of water as alive and rocks as alive but certainly not inanimate. This denial of of personhood to all other beings is increasingly being refuted by science itself.

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