ABSTRACT
This chapter draws on the burgeoning literature that considers plant intelligence and how plants receive, store, process and share information. It argue that conserving and restoring the social life of plants and trees is even more critical within the broader recovery agenda, which scientific discourses must come to accept and deal with. The chapter discusses how must imagine and include the animism and social life of plants in the development of environmental law in the Anthropocene. It explains that existing scientific approaches in restoration ecology can assist to restore this animism. The chapter describes perhaps rather briefly, a new direction in terms of how the legal imagination may be enlivened by the animism inherent in plants and trees. It focuses on the ability of plants and trees to ‘see’, particularly as sight is significant for social and cultural development. The chapter explains scientific approaches to restoration and explore their role in recovery..
