La nazione delle piante Quotes

“The insane idea that it is possible to grow indefinitely in an environment that has limited resources is only human. The rest of life follows realistic models.”
― Stefano Mancuso, La nazione delle piante

“would seem to me more correct that the top should be reserved for the organisms that produce chemical energy, rather than those that consume it.”
― Stefano Mancuso, The Nation of Plants

“Plants see, hear, breathe and think with their whole bodies.”
― Stefano Mancuso, The Nation of Plants

“from the roots to the foliage, you notice that plants are constructed on a diffuse model, the opposite of the centralised animal model. It is an organisation that allows for freedom and strength at the same time.”
― Stefano Mancuso, The Nation of Plants

“thesis that a hierarchical organisation characterised by 1) sufficient distance between one’s own actions and the results of those actions, 2) strong authority and 3) depersonalized internal hierarchical relationships, could recreate the horror of the Shoah seemed totally unacceptable to most observers.”
― Stefano Mancuso, The Nation of Plants

“Weber writes, every bureaucracy stops serving the society that created it, becoming an end in itself, growing like a foreign body, implementing measures that protect itself and imposing dysfunctional rules that serve only to justify its own size.”
― Stefano Mancuso, The Nation of Plants

“Art. 08: La Nazione delle Piante riconosce e favorisce il mutuo appoggio fra le comunità naturali di esseri viventi come strumento di convivenza e di progresso”
― Stefano Mancuso, La nazione delle piante

“Art. 03: La Nazione delle Piante non riconosce le gerarchie animali, fondate su centri di comando e funzioni concentrate, e favorisce democrazie vegetali diffuse e decentralizzate”
― Stefano Mancuso, La nazione delle piante

“La radiación de fondo a la que todos estamos sometidos es de en torno a 0,35 µSv por hora, o lo que es lo mismo, tres plátanos y medio. Siguiendo esta lógica, podemos decir que una hora de vuelo en avión a gran altitud equivale a cincuenta plátanos; dormir al lado de alguien, a medio plátano; una radiografía del brazo, a unos diez plátanos; y una hora bajo la radiación de Chernóbil en los peores momentos del desastre, a cientos de millones de plátanos.”
― Stefano Mancuso, La pianta del mondo

“Dacché ho memoria, ho sempre avuto un'attrazione irresistibile per la carta. A 3 anni mi sono innamorato della maestra di asilo e subito dopo della carta.”
― Stefano Mancuso, La pianta del mondo