Who’s Afraid of Gender?

You have to stand outside the car to realize it for a cage.

Roger Deakin’s journey through trees takes him through the woods of Britain and Europe, to Kazakhstan and Australia, finding fellowship with a good many trees and the critters that live among them, as well as many lovely and interesting people.

“Beautiful one, give us our need. We give you our words.”

Amidst the noisy and nonsensical discourse about recognizing the intelligence of machines, Zoë Schlanger asks us to open our eyes to the intelligence that already surrounds us and upon which we wholly depend: that of plants.

“There is no trust in them, because there is no truth in them.”