생生

식물처럼 언제 어디서든, 어떤 환경이든 옵티메이션 하는 거, 그게 생生이구나..

 

"Despite their marginalized and passive position in

Western worldviews, plants constitute ―more than 99% of the earth‘s biomass‖ ([32], p. 463). Plant

physiologist Anthony Trewavas, a prominent proponent of floristic intelligence, observes the capacitySocieties 2012, 2 106

of plants for adaptive behavior; they ―possess a fine ability to adjust and optimally exploit the local

environment‖ [33]. Moreover, a recent body of writings characterizes plants as agentive, autonomous,

and intelligent subjects and considers the wide-ranging implications of research into plant intelligence

and consciousness, pioneered most notably by Charles Darwin in the 19th century [12,26,27,34–36]."

 

Despite their marginalized and passive position in

Western worldviews, plants constitute ―more than 99% of the earth‘s biomass‖ ([32], p. 463). Plant

physiologist Anthony Trewavas, a prominent proponent of floristic intelligence, observes the capacitySocieties 2012, 2 106

of plants for adaptive behavior; they ―possess a fine ability to adjust and optimally exploit the local

environment‖ [33]. Moreover, a recent body of writings characterizes plants as agentive, autonomous,

and intelligent subjects and considers the wide-ranging implications of research into plant intelligence

and consciousness, pioneered most notably by Charles Darwin in the 19th century [12,26,27,34–36].

 

Societies 2012, 2, 101–121; doi:10.3390/soc2030101

societies

ISSN 2075-4698

www.mdpi.com/journal/societies

Article

Passive Flora? Reconsidering Nature’s Agency through

Human-Plant Studies (HPS)

John Charles Ryan

School of Communications and Arts, Edith Cowan University, 2 Bradford Street, Mount Lawley,

Western Australia 6050, Australia; E-Mail: jryan9@our.ecu.edu.au

Received: 5 July 2012; in revise