This article focuses on three examples of religious considerations of plants. with specific attention to the uselessness of plants. Drawing on Christian and Daoist sources. the examples include the following: (1) the lilies of the field described by Jesus in the Gospels of Matthew and Luke; (2) the useless tree of Zhuangzi; and (3) Martin Heidegger’s reading of a mystic poet inf... https://www.duospiritalis.com/