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Persons as Plants: Ecopsychology and the Return to the Dream of Nature

Chapter of: Covert Plants: Vegetal Consciousness and Agency in an Anthropocentric World(pp. 183–194)

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TitlePersons as Plants
SubtitleEcopsychology and the Return to the Dream of Nature
ContributorMonica Gagliano(author)
DOIhttps://doi.org/10.21983/P3.0207.1.15
Landing pagehttps://punctumbooks.com/titles/covert-plants/
Licensehttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/
CopyrightGagliano, Monica
Publisherpunctum books
Published on2018-09-11
Long abstractWith the provocative title Plants as Persons, Matthew Hall’s brainchild had stirred up an exciting discourse on the perception and the action of people towards plants, and more generally, Na-ture. In sharing my excitement over this book with a friend, I was asked whether the word persons is ‘proper English’ and whether it is even reasonable to equate plants to people.2 So let this essay be the journey that starts there, at the origin and significance of this word; a journey that weaves its way through the powerful threads of Silverstein’s storytelling3 to nurse the Western rational mind from the bigoted Aristotelian idea of the inferior nature of plants to the timeless and soul-full reality of plants as teachers experienced by indigenous healers and shamans across the globe. And from the world of shamans, so beautifully embroidered with magic and deep truths, let this journey bring us back to the scientific world of the Western mind, but with a new much-needed perception of what humans call ‘Nature.’ And just like in T.S. Eliot’s poem ‘Little Gidding,’ let this be a journey that ulti-mately returns us to the place from where we started, but which we now truly know for the first time.
Page rangepp. 183–194
Print length12 pages
LanguageEnglish (Original)