The Intelligence In All Kinds Of Life

[Welles]

"MS. KRISTA TIPPETT, HOST: “Why is the world so beautiful?” This is a question Robin Wall Kimmerer pursues as a botanist and also as a member of the Citizen Potawatomi Nation. She writes, “Science polishes the gift of seeing, indigenous traditions work with gifts of listening and language.” An expert in moss — a bryologist — she describes mosses as the “coral reefs of the forest.” She opens a sense of wonder and humility for the intelligence in all kinds of life we are used to naming and imagining as inanimate.

DR. ROBIN WALL KIMMERER: I can’t think of a single scientific study in the last few decades that has demonstrated that plants or animals are dumber than we think. It’s always the opposite, right? What we’re revealing is the fact that they have a capacity to learn, to have memory, and we’re at the edge of a wonderful revolution in really understanding the sentience of other beings."

There's the opening from the transcript of this wonderful interview. Read or listen to it here...

The Intelligence In All Kinds Of Life — an OnBeing interview with Robin Wall Kimmerer

http://www.onbeing.org/program/robin-wa ... cript/8467


Welles

[Sandy]

I very much enjoyed that! Thank you Welles. I would love to read Dr. Kimmerer's book "Braiding Sweetgrass: Indegenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowlege and Teachings of Plants."
Now after that interview, I am in the mood to get to know my garden plants a little better on this beautiful Sunday afternoon.
Love to you from Australia,
Sandy