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“We’ll see how every plant has the ability to survive massive predation, and that what ultimately distinguishes a plant from an animal is its divisibility: its being equipped with numerous “command centers” and a network structure not unlike the Internet’s. Understanding plants is becoming more and more important.”
― Brilliant Green: The Surprising History and Science of Plant Intelligence
― Brilliant Green: The Surprising History and Science of Plant Intelligence
“The insane idea that it is possible to grow indefinitely in an environment that has limited resources is only human. The rest of life follows realistic models.”
― La nazione delle piante
― La nazione delle piante
“On the basis of decades of experiments, plants are starting to be regarded as beings capable of calculation and choice, learning and memory. A few years ago, Switzerland, amid much less rational polemics, became the first country in the world to affirm the rights of plants with a special declaration. But”
― Brilliant Green: The Surprising History and Science of Plant Intelligence
― Brilliant Green: The Surprising History and Science of Plant Intelligence
“Plants see, hear, breathe and think with their whole bodies.”
― The Nation of Plants
― The Nation of Plants
“Most people who bother to think about plants at all tend to regard them as the mute, immobile furniture of our world—useful enough, and generally attractive, but obviously second-class citizens in the republic of life on Earth.”
― Brilliant Green: The Surprising History and Science of Plant Intelligence
― Brilliant Green: The Surprising History and Science of Plant Intelligence
“Их изначальный выбор – укорениться в почве – определил соответствующие изменения тела растения. Оно эволюционировало совершенно по-другому, чем тело животного, и постепенно стало для нас непонятным и трудно постижимым. Растения не имеют лица, конечностей, и в целом совершенно не похожи на то, что мы определяем, как «живое существо». Это делает их как бы «невидимыми». Мы воспринимаем их просто как часть пейзажа, потому что видим, по сути, только то, что понимаем, а понимаем лишь то, что похоже на нас самих. Растения – образец «инаковости» на нашей планете.”
― The Revolutionary Genius of Plants: A New Understanding of Plant Intelligence and Behavior
― The Revolutionary Genius of Plants: A New Understanding of Plant Intelligence and Behavior
“Любые организации, в которых иерархические отношения позволяют одной особи решать за всех, обречены на провал в мире, который базируется прежде всего на инновациях и креативных решениях. Будущее – за растительной моделью существования. Общества, которые в прошлом развивались благодаря жесткой иерархической структуре, строгому разграничению функционалов и работ, должны в будущем уподобиться растениям – сохранить прикрепленность к определенной территории, но в то же время децентрализоваться, сочетая принятие решений и функции управления точно так, как делают это различные клетки нашего организма. Пирамидальная структура должна быть превращена в горизонтальную сеть.”
― The Revolutionary Genius of Plants: A New Understanding of Plant Intelligence and Behavior
― The Revolutionary Genius of Plants: A New Understanding of Plant Intelligence and Behavior
“Dacché ho memoria, ho sempre avuto un'attrazione irresistibile per la carta. A 3 anni mi sono innamorato della maestra di asilo e subito dopo della carta.”
― La pianta del mondo
― La pianta del mondo
“Weber writes, every bureaucracy stops serving the society that created it, becoming an end in itself, growing like a foreign body, implementing measures that protect itself and imposing dysfunctional rules that serve only to justify its own size.”
― The Nation of Plants
― The Nation of Plants
“Art. 03: La Nazione delle Piante non riconosce le gerarchie animali, fondate su centri di comando e funzioni concentrate, e favorisce democrazie vegetali diffuse e decentralizzate”
― La nazione delle piante
― La nazione delle piante
“Во многих случаях поразительные способности растений к мимикрии помогают обмануть животных к выгоде и удобству растений. Ничего нового: на самом деле, обман и дезинформация являются универсальным инструментом для выживания всех живых существ, включая растения.”
― The Revolutionary Genius of Plants: A New Understanding of Plant Intelligence and Behavior
― The Revolutionary Genius of Plants: A New Understanding of Plant Intelligence and Behavior
“from the roots to the foliage, you notice that plants are constructed on a diffuse model, the opposite of the centralised animal model. It is an organisation that allows for freedom and strength at the same time.”
― The Nation of Plants
― The Nation of Plants
“Art. 08: La Nazione delle Piante riconosce e favorisce il mutuo appoggio fra le comunità naturali di esseri viventi come strumento di convivenza e di progresso”
― La nazione delle piante
― La nazione delle piante
“La radiación de fondo a la que todos estamos sometidos es de en torno a 0,35 µSv por hora, o lo que es lo mismo, tres plátanos y medio. Siguiendo esta lógica, podemos decir que una hora de vuelo en avión a gran altitud equivale a cincuenta plátanos; dormir al lado de alguien, a medio plátano; una radiografía del brazo, a unos diez plátanos; y una hora bajo la radiación de Chernóbil en los peores momentos del desastre, a cientos de millones de plátanos.”
― La pianta del mondo
― La pianta del mondo
“thesis that a hierarchical organisation characterised by 1) sufficient distance between one’s own actions and the results of those actions, 2) strong authority and 3) depersonalized internal hierarchical relationships, could recreate the horror of the Shoah seemed totally unacceptable to most observers.”
― The Nation of Plants
― The Nation of Plants
“La vida es una mercancía muy escasa en el universo.”
― El increíble viaje de las plantas
― El increíble viaje de las plantas
“Стремление поддерживать в порядке внутреннюю организацию перед лицом естественного стремления к деградации и беспорядку – важнейшая и необходимая способность живого организма, не зависящая от его сложности. Эта способность проявляется через умение существа делать правильный выбор.”
― The Revolutionary Genius of Plants: A New Understanding of Plant Intelligence and Behavior
― The Revolutionary Genius of Plants: A New Understanding of Plant Intelligence and Behavior
“would seem to me more correct that the top should be reserved for the organisms that produce chemical energy, rather than those that consume it.”
― The Nation of Plants
― The Nation of Plants
“But on that score, at the rate at which we are allowing plant species to become extinct, we are probably forfeiting who knows how many undiscovered solutions and future possibilities for effectively, at modest cost and without environmental impact, depolluting our planet.”
― Brilliant Green: The Surprising History and Science of Plant Intelligence
― Brilliant Green: The Surprising History and Science of Plant Intelligence




