Association with plants instills patience, quiet, and peace, fostering an advanced culture of peace-loving agriculturalists. [1]
The evolution of spore-bearing plants into seeds was a crucial advancement in plant development, increasing their reproductive potential and versatility. [2]
The appearance of apparently useless forms in plant evolution is a necessary step destined to pass in the grand scheme of planetary life metamorphosis. [3] Flowering plants suddenly emerged during the Cretaceous period, marking a significant evolution in the plant world. [4]
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. [5]
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. [6] Throughout history, there was a superstition that women were better plant growers because they were seen as mothers. [7]
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. [8] On morontia worlds, pure energy growth distinguishes their unique and varied vegetable life. [9] The closing epochs of the Permian era witnessed the near extinction of spore-bearing plants. [10] Plants were feared, then worshiped for their intoxicating liquors, believed to render one divine, even in modern times known as “spirits”. [11] A list of plants named in The Urantia Book is in the links.