Posted by Willow on July 9, 2001, at 22:24:44
In reply to Re: greenfly - plants say ouch! » Willow, posted by kid_A on July 9, 2001, at 11:16:39
> > Tonight during a little campfire to warmup after a swim my son decides to ask if the wood likes to be burned. My answer it doesn't care. Daughters answer it doesn't have feelings. Son replies everything has feelings.
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> plants do have some mechanism for sensing that they are being damaged... some sort of 'pain' receptor that has been scientifically messured... but once its a log, im sure that the log doesnt care if it is burned or not...
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> pet rocks on the other hand...
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> "we are attracted to every life that offers us something unknown, by a vast illusion to be destroyed." - marcell proust
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