Quoted: There’s a scientific explanation for that feeling, according to Simon Gilroy, a professor of botany at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Gilroy researches how plants sense and respond to their environment. Houseplants are an occupational hazard, he said. “The real thing that defines where you are is the plants that are around you, because they’re absolutely everywhere. That is the environment where we, as human beings, grow up,” Gilroy said. “That’s the background of what it means to be alive.”
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