The North Branch School – 2024 NBS Annual Online Auction
Auction Ends: Dec 9, 2024 10:00 PM EST

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The Light Eaters by Zoe Schlanger (hardcover)

Item Number
245
Estimated Value
30 USD
Opening Bid
10 USD

The winning bid will go to FrontStream Global Fund (tax ID 26-3265577), a 501c3 nonprofit organization, which will send the donation to The North Branch School (tax ID 32-0013815) on behalf of the winner.

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2024-11-14 08:00:00.0
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2024-12-09 22:00:00.0

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Item Description

The Light Eaters is a deep immersion into the drama of green life and the complexity of this wild and awe-inspiring world that challenges our very understanding of agency, consciousness, and intelligence. In looking closely, we see that plants, rather than imitate human intelligence, have perhaps formed a parallel system. What is intelligent life if not a vine that grows leaves to blend into the shrub on which it climbs, a flower that shapes its bloom to fit exactly the beak of its pollinator, a pea seedling that can hear water flowing and make its way toward it? Zoƫ Schlanger takes us across the globe, digging into her own memories and into the soil with the scientists who have spent their waking days studying these amazing entities up close.

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Donated By:

Annabelle Maroney