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What Is the Point of Plants?

The Infinite Monkey Cage

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Plants and Phototropism

I love reveal is ganti, but it res me to do more sometimes. So well, plant, you knowt theyre complicated er isms, extremely complex, aren't they? They are. And they've had to evolve quite intricate ways of of being more plastic than we are. For example, if if we get hit and knocked over and our arm gets taken off, it won't get put back on. But if you take a branch off a tree or a plant, it'll just grow it again. It's plastic. It takes whatever the environment throws at it. I went out for a day with a guy calld tristan gole, who's known as the

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