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Robin Wall Kimmerer — The Intelligence of Plants

On Being with Krista Tippett

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What Is the Difference Between Objectivity and Beauty?

Mea: You were born a botanist, which was the language you got as you entered college in forestry school at state university of new york. And so there as no question but that i'd study botany an college. It was my passion, still is, of course. But the botany that i encountered there was so different than the way that i understood plants. Mea: There's a very good biophysical explanation for why those plants grow together. So each of those plants benefits by combining its beauty with the beauty of the other. That's a question that science can address, certainly as well as as artists.

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