As I’ve grown older, I’ve become deeply suspicious of people touting intellectual knowledge that isn’t complimented with direct lived experience. Don’t get me wrong, … Continue

The modern world is divided. We see this pretty much in all areas. It’s either one thing or another, A or B, black and … Continue

Plants do not sit inside their environment in the way that a chair sits inside a room. Instead, the plant is formed by its … Continue

Anima mundi is Latin for the soul of the world. Its origins trace back to Plato’s Timaeus. He describes the universe as a rational … Continue

Let’s start with breath. The oxygen you inhaled is the direct result of photosynthesis, the continuous work of every green thing around you. Just … Continue

In the 1970s, James Lovelock, the English scientist and environmentalist, proposed something that the scientific establishment found deeply uncomfortable. The Earth, he argued, is … Continue

The way our upbringing teaches us to pay attention keeps us safely outside what we are looking at. We observe, we record, we analyse, … Continue

In our culture, we see intelligence as needing a brain or a central processing system. With this brain, there is also the ability to … Continue

Aristotle placed plants at the bottom of a hierarchy of living things. He outlined this in his treatise De Anima – Latin for ‘On … Continue

If you sit with plants long enough, you might notice something: they reach for the light in a very different way to how humans … Continue