Plant Blindness

The New York Times offers a primer on plants. I know how it is. You're so caught up in your Ivy League, investment-banking life, learning about the classics and keeping track of P/E ratios, that, gosh, you forgot to learn about plants. Times to the rescue, telling you about plants in friendly language, that won't scare off the shyer amateur botanists...

"Plants essentially eat the sun."
"Essential though plants may be to our survival, Dr. Raven emphasizes that they are a radically different form of organism than are animals."
"A plant is also always drinking, slurping water and nutrients the only way it can, through its roots. "

... as well as the people who are completely bored by plants:

"Some people aren’t even sure that plants are alive."
"We barely notice plants, can rarely identify them and find them incomparably inert."

It's never too late to learn about plants! If you missed the plant lecture in class, or just want to brush up on your plant knowledge, give it a look.