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Banksia seed bodies have inspired stories, especially for children, because their seed containers look like mouths when they open up. It is as if the plants can speak because they have such well-formed lips. Story-tellers put words into the mouths of the plants and animate these beings, which in modern society are seen as inanimate objects to be used up. Only the most sensitive people today can feel the life in all things around them in nature. Only they can open themselves up to the energy of the world we inhabit.
Free-flying parrots, not the ones cruelly kept in cages, eat the seeds of banksias as they move through the bushland.
