Plants teach

I recently visited an extraordinary exhibition at the Milan Triennale which has it as its title The Nation of Plants.

The exhibition highlights that the plant world is the true superpower of the planet. The numbers are all on his side: weight of living matter, energy produced, population of the planet, occupied surface. Without them there would be no life, no oceans, no air we breathe.

Plants have our five senses plus thirteen others. They breathe, see, hear and calculate with their whole body. They have great respect for the environment and its balance and have developed peaceful coexistence with other living species. The Nation of Plants practices mutual aid and mutual support between natural communities of living beings.

I found an immediate assonance with the shared universal values object of a recent meeting, in which I was involved, dedicated to the students of the Professional Institutes of Lombardy in a location truly special: the Duomo of Milan.

The Gothic cathedrals, as they were conceived, help to find harmony and to feel part of a whole. As plants teach. After all, aren't the tall columns of the cathedrals like redwood forests?

Gianni Ferrario

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