Plant Apathy

An article in the New York Times Science Section today explores in a fun way our blindness to plants despite their importance to our lives.

• "According to Peter H. Raven, director of the Missouri Botanical Garden, many of us suffer from an insidious condition called “plant blindness.” We barely notice plants, can rarely identify them and find them incomparably inert... But the antidote to plant apathy is at hand. As an unusually cool, sodden April edges toward May and spring’s cheeky blooms can be bridled no longer, botanists urge everyone to venture outside and check out the world through nature’s rose-colored glasses — and the daffodil, cherry blossom, dogwood and lupine ones, too. If this view doesn’t move you, you’re pushing up daisies. " -New York Times April 17, 2007 'Green, Life-Giving and Forever Young' By Natalie Angier