“Graceful Movements” in the Plant Kingdom
“At the beginning of the twentieth century, a gifted Viennese biologist with the Gallic name of Raoul France put forward the idea, shocking to contemporary Natural Philosophers, that plants move their bodies as freely, easily, and gracefully as the most skilled animal or human, and that the only reason we don’t appreciate the fact is that plants do so at a much slower pace than humans.”
…Peter Tompkins and Christopher Bird - The Secret Life of Plants.