Nelle’s Reviews > The Light Eaters: How the Unseen World of Plant Intelligence Offers a New Understanding of Life on Earth > Status Update
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Okay, so I am loving this but she‘s just committed what I am beginning to feel is some sort of cardinal sin of science journalism: claiming our boy Charlie Darwin‘s REAL passion was (insert subject of current book). Darwin was kind of into EVERYTHING, including yes of course carnivorous plants and orchids and plant sex but also barnacles and earthworms and rocks and life itself. There is enough Darwin to go around!
— Nov 14, 2025 10:08AM
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Author visits the Berlin Botanical Gardens on a lovely sunny day in September and makes space to mention how all the humans in the city parks are trying to soak up sunlight because the „loooooong, GREY winter“ is coming soon (the author does the audiobook). I feel both vindicated/seen and also annoyed, here on icy but sunny day in late November. Time to go outside.
— Nov 22, 2025 12:09AM
