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DIFFERENT TIME SCALES. "Midwinter, and the countryside is so still, it seems almost lifeless. But these trees and bushes and grasses around me are living organisms just like animals. And they have to face very much the same sort of problems as animals face throughout their lives if they're to survive. They have to fight one another, they have to compete for mates, they have to invade new territories. But the reason that we're seldom aware of these dramas is that plants of course live on a different time-scale." (David Attenborough). https://lnkd.in/dUFDzhT View in LinkedIn

IT IS INTERESTING how often we need to re-read Thomas Khun's book, The Structure of Scientific Revolutions. Scientists never have liked innovative and disruptive thinking, and Copernicus, Kepler, Darwin and Einstein are not alone. The list grows. A new way of looking at plants is emerging, challenging the old perception that these are essentially unsophisticated life forms. Enjoy the ride. https://lnkd.in/d5XhCtX View in LinkedIn

CONNECTION through nature. " "“The force that through the green fuse drives the flower " "Drives my green age; that blasts the roots of trees " "Is my destroyer.”" "Dylan Thomas https://lnkd.in/dEkmDe2 View in LinkedIn

Designs outside Girona cathedral made of river stones. View in LinkedIn

FRAGMENT FROM NATURE continues from last weekend and concludes this weekend on the theme of the return of some land plants, seagrasses in particular, to a sea life. This evolutionary transition for plants was challenging from a biochemical and physiological perspective. Consider only how salt intolerant most land plants are. This case study of an evolutionary reversal is quite fascinating. View in LinkedIn