Page 62 - Photosynthesis: The Green Miracle

Adnan Oktar

The plant employs a most intelligent
method. If it were to grow straight up with-
out clinging to a tree, within a few meters it
would be unable to bear its own weight and would
bend and fall back to earth. The only way for it to
reach greater heights without breaking is to have

its weight borne by winding itself around some
support. So how does the plant know this?
Furthermore, plants all over the world have been
growing in just that way, for millions of years, al-
ways finding something to wrap themselves
around. The way that every vine use this ideal be-
havior is clearly a miraculous property that these
plants have possessed since their original creation.
When a vine’s growth around another body is

examined through time-lapse photography, one can per-
ceive a very conscious and aware type of trial-and-error
behavior. Because of these characteristics, vines have been
the subject of myth and legend since the very earliest historical
times. A plant must impress human beings if it remains fixed in the
ground, unseeing and unhearing, yet examines its surroundings by
spreading out its tendrils, becomes acquainted with those surroundings

by touch, and makes use of their most available supports. People who
saw plants carrying out such apparently conscious behavior believed that
inside the plant there must exist some intelligent and conscious entity that
controlled the actions of these tendrils and shoots—and made up stories
and myths about these plants to explain their observations.
Indeed, it’s still astonishing how an unconscious plant can examine
its surroundings as if it could actually feel them, and then decide to cling
onto a nearby surface. These plants’ sense of touch is so powerful that re-
searchers investigating Bryonia dioica, a species of wild squash, discov-

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