Brilliant Green Quotes

“On the basis of decades of experiments, plants are starting to be regarded as beings capable of calculation and choice, learning and memory. A few years ago, Switzerland, amid much less rational polemics, became the first country in the world to affirm the rights of plants with a special declaration. But”
― Stefano Mancuso, Brilliant Green: The Surprising History and Science of Plant Intelligence

“We’ll see how every plant has the ability to survive massive predation, and that what ultimately distinguishes a plant from an animal is its divisibility: its being equipped with numerous “command centers” and a network structure not unlike the Internet’s. Understanding plants is becoming more and more important.”
― Stefano Mancuso, Brilliant Green: The Surprising History and Science of Plant Intelligence

“But on that score, at the rate at which we are allowing plant species to become extinct, we are probably forfeiting who knows how many undiscovered solutions and future possibilities for effectively, at modest cost and without environmental impact, depolluting our planet.”
― Stefano Mancuso, Brilliant Green: The Surprising History and Science of Plant Intelligence

“Delpino llegó a la conclusión de que las plantas mirmecófilas secretan néctar fuera de la flor precisamente para atraer a estos insectos”
― Viola, Stefano, Alessandra Mancuso, Sensibilidad e inteligencia en el mundo vegetal (Rústica nº 34)

“Most people who bother to think about plants at all tend to regard them as the mute, immobile furniture of our world—useful enough, and generally attractive, but obviously second-class citizens in the republic of life on Earth.”
― Stefano Mancuso, Brilliant Green: The Surprising History and Science of Plant Intelligence