Why are plants considered to be alive?

Question

They grow, but they don't have any sort of nervous system or consciousness, right?

So why are they considered alive?

Answer 1

There are a bunch of qualifications for life according to biologists, but the big ones in my mind are maintaining homeostasis, carrying out metabolism, and reproducing.

Essentially, plants maintain an internal environment that is different than the outside environment, they consume products to produce energy, and they have functions that reproduce their life functions. The way we define life has nothing to do with thought, sentience, or consciousness.

Answer 2

They produce all the seven vital functions, that are respiration, growth, movement, reproduction, sensitivity, feeding and excretion, and so they are classified as living things.

Answer 3

do you remember the 6 qualities that specify living things

Living things are made of cells.

Living things obtain and use energy.

Living things grow and develop.

Living things reproduce.

Living things respond to their environment.

Living things adapt to their environment

Plants do all those things- thats why their considered alive

Answer 4

Maybe the biggest is the possibility of reproducing perfect copies of the structure that builds the lifeform itself, ie DNA.

They also go through the same processes as more mobile lifeforms, ie birth, maturity, reproduction and death. They eat and drink aswell, just in a much slower and adapted way.

Answer 5

When you talk to them and play music for them they respond.  I had a plant that I transferred from the river b/c it looked really cool.  It seemed to die after a week and I gave it some fertilizer and sat with it for hours each day and talked with it and rubbed it branches and within a few days it started to look goldish green and then finally green.  Now it's totally alive and happy and I talk to it daily and give it water and pet its leaves and branches and it's bushy and happy.

I'm a Shaman Empath and we are known for talking with plants and animals.  When I sit and admire plants for their beauty they get a rush from it and they bloom in response.  When I smile and have good vibes toward them they get really green and "happy".  Ever since I started talking with plants and feeling the vibes and learning to give good vibes back I have had better luck growing almost anything.  

Plants communicate with themselves too.  I have been totally bummed with life and have gone into the forest and sat against a tree and I feel better.  It goes both ways.  Everything on this planet is alive to one extent or another.  Even the planet is alive and has a consciousness.  

Even ants will thank you for not stepping on them if you just open up your heart and listen to them.  With Ascension here right now your intuitive senses will become stronger and stronger over the next 3.5 years.  You will feel it as your hertz rate increases.  Your emotions will be strange some days but you just need to meditate and do something loving for someone and you will feel better.  As creation speeds up our logical minds will soon be worthless.  Nature is converting us to use our intuitive minds as our hertz rate increases and soon you will be able to sense the feelings and thoughts of others around you (humans).  If you want to know more about it check out this website.  Start out with the Mayan lecture that will explain most of it and there is more.  It's at:  http://2012.heavenforum.com

Meditate, listen, feel your emotions, and let things happen as they may.  You'll be fine.

:-)

Peace