most people don't realize how active and busy the lives of plants are
the absolutely mind bending adaptations they evolved, clever little behaviors, their social lives
it's easy for animals like as to view plants as inanimate, and not even realize that we are applying this bias. we personally do this all the time, even knowing that pretty much every little plant we see, we can go look up information about it and it'll be like reading a pokedex entry with all of the strange and intricate behaviors the plant is engaging in
but a plant is every bit as complex and intricate an organism as an animal.
a thing we often try to do is turn off that filtering, to feel a forest as though we would a pack of wolves, to feel a meadow of grass as we would a thick flock of seagulls
to view plants like we do animals
we don't think it's fair to actually reduce them to animals though- they are their own separate thing, and to box them in as "just like animals" is to replace one kind of brushing away of uncomfortable feelings with another kind
they are their own creatures, existing on their own terms. but viewing them like animals helps break us out of the habit of viewing them as inanimate. it is perceptual shock treatment