Vegetal writing takes place at the intersection of species with human privilege so profound and multilayered it is impossible to account for it fully, as in every written account humans speak for plants. If, as I do, one believes in the observer effect—that an observed system is disturbed by the act of observation whether the observation is by human or an instrument—then even phytographic experiences with no touch, where humans “only” observe, are impacted by the act of human observation, mediated or not, and observation is intersectional. Writing/drawing with Hong Kong plants, and observing them, is a process entangled with British colonialism very differently from the colonial entanglement when writing with the English oak.

— Plants by Numbers by Jane Prophet, Helen V. Pritchard (Page 171)