I just read this really cool book by Luce Irigaray and Michael Marder, called "Through Vegetal Being," where they basically trace how plants and other vegetative beings aid humans in discovering what being-human means.
It's nice to hear this kind of prospective.
Thanks, there is a paradox involved with organic life because it is mortal, but the animating part is non physical and immortal. Non organic things do not live or die. The part of Gaia that is ascending right now is her organic self, her soul.