Text: An exchange requires openness and new ideas, since our animal chauvinism refuses to leave the terrain of animal language, which is unfit for reference to a plant truth (Francis Hallé, Éloge de la plante, S. 325). Therefore we also address topics t

An exchange requires openness and new ideas, since our animal chauvinism refuses to leave the terrain of animal language, which is unfit for reference to a plant truth (Francis Hallé, Éloge de la plante, S. 325). Therefore we also address topics that fall out of the scientific grid and seek to investigate the nature of the plant without a claim for justification.