Could understanding the language of plants help us feel empathy for them? There seems to be a new perspective in science and biology that is about -really- understanding flora. For a long time plants have been regarded as one of the most unintelligent of species and biologists who claimed otherwise where frowned upon and called quacks or new age mystics. Now, more people in the area of biology and science say that there might be a possibility that plants are much more intelli

Plants are sometimes difficult to understand and failing to understand them makes them overlooked. Struggling to find the right language and failing at this is seemingly very human too. This leads to the other shutting off and losing connection. I can connect to this issue and it makes the research on plant sentience feel personal and very close. Suddenly the plant became a symbol for not being understood properly. A thought and worry that I had for a very long time growing