Plants
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Association with plants instills patience, quiet, and peace, fostering an advanced culture of peace-loving agriculturalists. (68:5.9,11)
The evolution of spore-bearing plants into seeds was a crucial advancement in plant development, increasing their reproductive potential and versatility. 59:5.22 65:6.3
The appearance of apparently useless forms in plant evolution is a necessary step destined to pass in the grand scheme of planetary life metamorphosis. 36:2.17
Flowering plants suddenly emerged during the Cretaceous period, marking a significant evolution in the plant world. 60:3
Lower forms of plant life are wholly responsive to physical, chemical, and electrical environment, while higher forms demonstrate increasingly adjustive, creative, co-ordinative, and dominative abilities through the influence of the adjutant spirits. 65:6.7
The most significant evolutionary advancement in plants was the development of chlorophyll-making ability, followed by the transformation of the spore into the complex seed. 65:6.3
Throughout history, there was a superstition that women were better plant growers because they were seen as mothers. 84:3.6
Some tribes believed in nature spirits within charms made from plants once considered fetishes, which were also taboo as food, such as the apple for the Levantine peoples. 88:1.3
On morontia worlds, pure energy growth distinguishes their unique and varied vegetable life. 43:6.6
The closing epochs of the Permian era witnessed the near extinction of spore-bearing plants. 60:0.2
Plants were feared, then worshiped for their intoxicating liquors, believed to render one divine, even in modern times known as “spirits”. 85:2.1-2