- Lambert Schmithausen, The Problem of the Sentience of Plants in Earliest Buddhism (Tokyo: International Institute for Buddhist Studies, 1991 = Studia Philologica Buddhica, Monograph Series, VI)
- Richard Sorabji, Animal Minds and Human Morals: The Origins of the Western Debate (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1993 = Cornell Studies in Classical Philology, 54), pp. 97-106 = Chapter 8 (Plants and Animals)
- Ellison Banks Findly, Plant Lives: Borderline Beings in Indian Traditions (Delhi: Motilal Banarsidass, 2008)
- Matthew Hall, Plants As Persons: A Philosophical Botany (Albany: State University of New York Press, 2011)
"A peculiar anthologic maze, an amusing literary chaos, a farrago of quotations, a mere olla podrida of quaintness, a pot pourri of pleasant delites, a florilegium of elegant extracts, a tangled fardel of old-world flowers of thought, a faggot of odd fancies, quips, facetiae, loosely tied" (Holbrook Jackson, Anatomy of Bibliomania) by a "laudator temporis acti," a "praiser of time past" (Horace, Ars Poetica 173).
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Friday, July 06, 2012
Sentience of Plants
A note to myself for future reading: