Sentience
The more we learn about nature’s wonders, the more we are rediscovering sentience. Since time immemorial, people accepted the sentience of all life – that trees and animals have souls, rivers and mountains have spirits, and the Earth itself is alive. More recently, materialistic science dismissed these beliefs as superstition and ignorance. But new science is revealing that animals have emotions, fish feel pain and trees have intelligence. In New Zealand, the Whanganui River has been granted legal personhood and in Ecuador, the people of Sarayaku are appealing to the highest court to recognise the sentience of their rainforest.
— Wayne Visser
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