Willow Defebaugh

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731 appearances 6 recordings 1 series first heard Apr 2026 last heard 8 Sep

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The Nature Of with Willow Defebaugh · Are Plants Intelligent? Zoë Schlanger Has the Answer · 8 Sep 2026 podcast

How are you thinking about all of this within the context of the world?

in which this book was written and this moment in time for our planet.

And they have so much to teach us.

What what has changed?

I mean, even just from a philosophical perspective, what has changed in your day-to-day life since you wrote this book, since you had this vegetable awakening?

So we do have a favorite plant?

Ginkgo trees also are capable of changing sex on a specific branch, right?

have had a whole different episode about the queer botany.

Icons.

Okay, so I wanted to circle back.

You brought up ethics, right?

And how sometimes ethics almost needs to turn the tide even before science fully catches up, right?

You you reference the fact that not long ago surgeries were performed on live dogs with no anesthesia.

It was an ethical movement that intervened because at the time they didn't think that

dogs felt pain in the same way, right?

Right.

And so that was an example of ethics needing to step in before necessarily the science caught up.

So how does that connect to

And and how does that sort of bring this conversation into the world of plant conservation?

For anyone who's listening, what advice or wisdom do you have to share for how they can maybe get in touch with the plant world or sort of bring some of the topics that we've talked about here into their everyday lives?

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