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This episode is brought to you by Crinkly Leaves. Tonight we'll be reading the opening to

the study of plant life by MC Stopes, published in 1910.

MC Stopes, short for Marie Charlotte, who lived from 1880 to 1958, was a British author, Paleobotonist

and Women's rights campaigner.

Let's get cozy.

close your eyes.

Relax your body into the softness of your bed. Now. Now, take a few deep breaths. The Life of a Plant, Chapter 1, many people do not realize that plants are alive.

This mistake is due to the fact that plants are not so noisy

and quicken their ways as animals, and therefore do not attract so much attention to themselves, their lives, and their occupations.

When we look at a sunflower, surrounded by its leaves and standing still and upright in the sunlight,

we do not realize at first that it is doing work. We do not connect the idea

of work with such a thing of beauty. But look on it as we should on a picture or a statue.

Yet all the time that plant is not only living its own life, but is doing work of a kind which animals

cannot do.

Its green leaves in the light are manufacturing food for the whole plant out of such simple

materials that an animal could not use them at all as food.

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