‘Plants are regarded as beings that are capable of flourishing and of being harmed. Plants are of course acknowledged as being different from human beings. They have different ways of going about their lives and have different needs from human beings. They deserve their own taxonomic category. However, there is no radical ontological schism between plants, animals, or humans. Plants are not zoocentrically dualised
as inferior and are not placed at the bottom of a natural value-ordered hierarchy.’
Hall Matthew, Plants as persons, A philosophical botany