Re: Do Plants "Think"?

**P* R* <p*@hotmail.com>**

The controversy between those who do and those who don't believe in plant intelligence feels very contrived. We are limited by the construct that ours is the only true intelligence, and by the words that we use to define intelligence within the limits of our own species. Pollen did a good job in opening up the argument, moving it beyond the semantic. Darwin, once again, emerges as the forward-thinking theorist. His thoughts on the circumnutation of vines in The Power of Movement in Plants are amazingly current. The clicking sounds made by plants as they elongate (for echolocation?) -- fascinating. There is so much we don't know, and could know, if we would just get out of our own way!   

Pam Ruch
http://www.helpinggardenersgrow.com/

> Date: Wed, 8 Jan 2014 14:30:32 -0800
> From: bettymackey@verizon.net
> To: gardenwriters@lists.ibiblio.org
> Subject: Re: [GWL] Do Plants "Think"?
> 
> Thanks for the link, Duane. It was easier to open it than to go to another room and look through the unread magazines.
> 
> I also have a newly found old copy of The Secret Life of Plants -- left to me by a friend.
> 
> Betty Mackey
> www.mackeybooks.com  (under reconstruction)
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> Duane Campbell
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> Author: Best of Green Space; 30 Years of Composted Columns
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