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The Light Eaters by Zoë Schlanger — WisdomDeck honest review
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The Light Eaters

by Zoë Schlanger

The new botany: plants that sense, communicate, remember and perhaps decide, reported with care about the controversies. Mind-expanding.

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Three things you will actually use

  1. Plants sense far more than thought.
  2. Intelligence is contested.
  3. Look again at the green.

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