Plants Add Life Where There Is No Life

Pansies on a gravestone

Plants offer us connections to life-forms totally different from our own. Like us, plants grow and become. But unlike plants, we stop growing and start behaving, as do other animals. Plants are the source of qualities that we and other animals experience: forms, smells, tastes, textures, and colors. They feed us, directly or indirectly; they heal us as herbs . . . and they are much older than we are.
~Rupert Sheldrake, “How I Found God in Everyone and Everywhere”