If plants could talk?

Nature bestowed upon us the gift of speech; it blessed animals with the ability to produce sound but why at all it chose to neglect plants? As a child, I always wished if somehow they could express that I was taking good care of my little saplings. It never happened, and I could never unfold the nature’s prejudice. However, I concluded the reason to be, their being sedentary. Nature attributed vocals to the animals so that the others could be aware of their presence, help them to communicate and live in a society. Plants survive solitude yet never secede to deliver life.

Imagine if plants could speak? Man would have been its worst victim, and it would be difficult to promote vegetarianism. At least it would have reduced one parameter of differentiation, the cult Indian classification of vegetarian and non-vegetarian. The demarcation would have blurred because plants if not resisted, would have squealed being plucked for fruits, flowers, or leaves. The logic of preferring vegetables to flesh in the name of evading brutality against animals is elusive as both have life and constitute an eternal part of the food chain. People who rip the plants off the flowers during  the morning walk would be caught for the slaughter done in the name of worship. The deforestation caused to provide access for the development projects would be a shrieking hell and the plants would require anaesthetization prior plucking. Then there would be a PETP (People for Ethical Treatment of Plants) and several other similar outfits.

It would have been a chaotic world to visualise. Nature chose the plants to be speechless thus impregnating them with the obligation to nourish life without articulating their aggravations. So, it does to the human. People who have the ability to render themselves for the world’s furtherance never protest. Therefore, being silent should not be interpreted as a signature of docility but of the magnanimity and endurance of letting others prosper.