4 thoughts on “Interesting Book Passages – June 24, 2024”
Amazing what plants can do. But we have to help them a little, as they can’t lop for themselves, get water for themselves, find the sunny spot… Or can they?
Plants are really fascinating. When you live your life rooted to a spot, you have to be very inventive with how you perceive the world and respond to threats. Is that intelligence? Hard to say. Science would say no. But we only recently accepted that the octopus is intelligent, so perhaps we aren’t very good at judging intelligence…
Written Among The Stars 
Amazing what plants can do. But we have to help them a little, as they can’t lop for themselves, get water for themselves, find the sunny spot… Or can they?
Plants are really fascinating. When you live your life rooted to a spot, you have to be very inventive with how you perceive the world and respond to threats. Is that intelligence? Hard to say. Science would say no. But we only recently accepted that the octopus is intelligent, so perhaps we aren’t very good at judging intelligence…
If you haven’t read it, may I recommend an SF short on my blog preceded by:
“THE HOUSE OF THE VORD (Science fiction)
The fate of the female octopus, a gentle, intelligent creature who pays a high price for life, inspired this story.”
It’s on liebjabberings.wordpress dot com under the Short Stories tab.
I will take a look. It sounds intriguing.