Robert A.

“Extra thanks to Aron, for bringing my story to millions of TikTok viewers and for educating many young people who would otherwise not have heard about the Shoah.”
― Tova Friedman, The Daughter of Auschwitz: My Story of Resilience, Survival and Hope – A NYT Bestseller Biography of the Holocaust and World War 2

“dodder vine,”
― Zoë Schlanger, The Light Eaters: How the Unseen World of Plant Intelligence Offers a New Understanding of Life on Earth – A Popular Science and Natural History Study of Botany

“with stimuli that overwhelm or befuddle their senses, including coastal lights that lure newly hatched turtles away from the oceans, underwater noises that drown out the calls of whales, and glass panes that seem like bodies of water to bat sonar. We misinterpret the needs of animals closest to us, stopping smell-oriented dogs from sniffing their environments and imposing the visual world of humans upon them. And we underestimate what animals are capable of to our own detriment, missing out on the chance to understand how expansive and wondrous nature truly is—the delights that, as William Blake wrote, are “clos’d by your senses five.”
― Ed Yong, An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us

“you attach that same electrode to your houseplant’s leaf, and touch it in any way, a spike and swoop will appear on the readout that looks remarkably similar.”
― Zoë Schlanger, The Light Eaters: How the Unseen World of Plant Intelligence Offers a New Understanding of Life on Earth – A Popular Science and Natural History Study of Botany