Why Trees and People Form Mutually Beneficial Relationships

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This interview with Marc Berkoff was published on Psychology Today.

Key points

• Science is starting to show that some plants have capacities like memory, learning, communication, relationality, and recognizing self and kin.

• There is a growing scholarly interest in plants throughout the humanities, sometimes called the Vegetal Turn or plant humanities.

• Trees and plants can benefit from humans tending to their environment, which enhances or grows the ecological community.