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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

MOSTLY PLANTS. "99.7% of life on earth is plant life, and all animals, including humans make up the remaining .3%." https://lnkd.in/dpDJpF8 View in LinkedIn

BIOMASS. "On land there is about 1,000 times more plant biomass (phytomass) than animal biomass (zoomass). About 18% of this plant biomass is eaten by the land animals. However in the ocean the animal biomass is nearly 30 times larger than the plant biomass. Most ocean plant biomass is eaten by the ocean animals." https://lnkd.in/did9s7q View in LinkedIn

GLOBAL DNA. "The total amount of DNA base pairs on Earth, as a possible approximation of global biodiversity, is estimated at 5.0 x 10(37), and weighs 50 billion tonnes. In comparison, the total mass of the biosphere has been estimated to be as much as 4 TtC (trillion tons of carbon)." https://lnkd.in/dZ36EmZ) View in LinkedIn

GLOBAL BIOMASS. "Apart from bacteria, the total live biomass on Earth is about 560 billion tonnes C, and the total annual primary production of biomass is just over 100 billion tonnes C/yr. The total live biomass of bacteria may be as much as that of plants and animals or may be much less." And viruses? https://lnkd.in/dZ36EmZ) View in LinkedIn

TWENTY ONE PERCENT. "Plants, mushrooms, lichens, brown algae represent 359,297 species out of a known total of 1,730,725 or about 21% by number. Note that we have no idea of the majority of bacteria and viral species, and are still counting plants and animal species." https://lnkd.in/dAy6Fk6 View in LinkedIn