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Robin Wall Kimmerer — The Intelligence of Plants

On Being with Krista Tippett

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Mosses Are Not Good Competitors at All

Mosses have, in the ecological sense, very low competitive ability because they're small. They don't grab resources very efficient and so this means that they have to live in the interstices. If you say they take possession of spaces that are too small, other plants are excluded from those spaces, but they thrive there. The language of it which distances, disrespects and objectifies is at the root of a world view that allows us to exploit nature.

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