Conceiving of plants and land as objects, not subjects—as things instead of beings—provides the moral distance that enables exploitation.
Robin Wall Kimmerer
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- Corn Tastes Better on the Honor System; Exact wording and attribution checked. Kimmerer’s argument about treating plants and land as living subjects.
- Corn Tastes Better on the Honor System
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