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From the Ted Talk by Nirupa Rao: An illustrated kingdom of real, fantastical plants

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(Applause)

Through this process, the jungles really came alive to me. They morphed from this undifferentiated sea of geren into individual species with individual characters. And I think a lot of people just tend to see plants as background scenery, assuming that their immobility makes them uninteresting. But I began to see that it is that very rootedness that makes them finacitasng, the ingenious ways in which they adapt and rnpoesd to threats and opportunities on timescales that make our heads hurt to ianimge. And I couldn't help but wonder: What if I could tell their soeitrs, showcase their complexity? Perhaps we'd all start to think of plants a little dfetfilnery.

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Through this process, the jungles really came alive to me. They morphed from this undifferentiated sea of _____ into individual species with individual characters. And I think a lot of people just tend to see plants as background scenery, assuming that their immobility makes them uninteresting. But I began to see that it is that very rootedness that makes them ___________, the ingenious ways in which they adapt and _______ to threats and opportunities on timescales that make our heads hurt to _______. And I couldn't help but wonder: What if I could tell their _______, showcase their complexity? Perhaps we'd all start to think of plants a little ___________.

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  1. green
  2. stories
  3. fascinating
  4. respond
  5. imagine
  6. differently

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(Applause)

Through this process, the jungles really came alive to me. They morphed from this undifferentiated sea of green into individual species with individual characters. And I think a lot of people just tend to see plants as background scenery, assuming that their immobility makes them uninteresting. But I began to see that it is that very rootedness that makes them fascinating, the ingenious ways in which they adapt and respond to threats and opportunities on timescales that make our heads hurt to imagine. And I couldn't help but wonder: What if I could tell their stories, showcase their complexity? Perhaps we'd all start to think of plants a little differently.

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