Have you ever sat and watched a plant? The very idea itself might seem strange. We like to
watch things that move that do something. But in fact plants are doing a great deal too -
plants behave as animals do - they are just doing it on a very different timescale. They
cannot move about freely like animals do so they grow into space instead and make new
chemicals to interact with the species around them. Not only that but what causes them to do
these things what drives this behaviour is far more similar than we humans with our speedy
animal-centric perceptions have always assumed. If we learn to look differently we might be
amazed at what we find. We are dismantling the traditional hierarchies of nature: we are
becoming increasingly aware of the interior lives of other species and how much we share with
them. We are also coming to understand that there are many more ways to be intelligent than we
have previously believed. We can't see ourselves as the only privileged intelligent life on
Earth any more. And if we are to save the global biome we must not. PLANTA SAPIENS opens up
the plant kingdom like never before and will transform how you view other forms of life to see
plants as allies in tackling global problems rather than as mere resources as teachers from
whom we can learn about our own minds.
