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A Plant (n.) speaks ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠first of its home — climate, soil, marsh or mountain — and then of the special will of its species, saying something that cannot be uttered in any other tongue.

A Plant (n.) has ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠no self-consciousness because it cannot move — of what use would knowing be to it if it could not seek the salutary and flee the noxious?

A Plant (n.) is ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠the most naive of beings: it shows its whole character in its mere form, carrying its organs of generation openly on top — innocent because it does not know.

A Plant (n.) has ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠no consciousness of an outer world, only something like a dull self-enjoyment; yet it seeks light and finds supports it does not touch — a faint analogue to perception.

A Plant (n.) presses ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠itself on our notice as if longing for an onlooker: unable to know, it needs a foreign intelligence to lift it from blind will into the world of idea.