Phytoremediation (flower power)

The plants are unparalleled models of modernity. We start by asking ourselves how is it that plants are so numerous and so healthy on Earth. Despite their seemingly inability to respond to animal predation and although they cannot escape to survive in any danger, the amount of vegetation on Earth is staggering. They represent, in fact, 99.5% of the biomass of our planet. And there is a ratio, which is the only and primary measure of its success. In other words, of all that is alive on Earth, animals (by weight) are a paltry 0.5%. There's another thing again: how is it that organisms so seemingly insignificant and helpless, without any sensitivity, memory, and perceptual ability, at the mercy of predators and the environment, can achieve such extraordinary and unchallenged publication? It seems legitimate to suspect that we may have misjudged the true capacity of plants between 400 million and a billion years ago.