Passive Flora? Reconsidering Nature’s Agency through Human-Plant Studies (HPS)
Plants have been—and, for reasons of human sustenance and creative inspiration, will continue to be—centrally important to societies globally. Yet, plants—including herbs, shrubs, and trees—are commonly characterized in Western thought as passive, sessile, and silent automatons lacking a brain, as a...
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MDPI AG
2012-08-01
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| Series: | Societies |
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| Online Access: | http://www.mdpi.com/2075-4698/2/3/101 |