Sunday 1 March 2020

otherness



«As I catalog the differences between plants and animals,
the horizon stretches out before me faster than I can
travel and forces me to acknowledge that perhaps I was
destined to study plants for decades only in order to more
fully appreciate that they are beings we can never truly 
understand. Only when we begin to grasp this deep
otherness can we be sure we are no longer projecting
ourselves onto plants. Finally we can begin to recognize
what is actually happening.»

(Hope Jahren, Lab Girl)