Funny you should say that, since I’m reading Richard Powers’ novel The Overstory now, wherein trees are depicted as having all sorts of long-unrecocgnized (by humans) agency. Maybe the question becomes just what agency is, but if what Powers dramatizes is true, it does seem worth recognizing that seemingly insensate and independent trees effectively communicate and work with each other. (Not that I think you’d deny such, um, agency exists and matters.)
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