Plants may not have feelings but they are indeed alive and have been described as sentient life forms that have “tropic” and “nastic” responses to stimuli. Plants can sense water, light, and gravity — they can even defend themselves and send signals to other plants to warn that danger is here, or near.

Do plants have emotions?

While no one claims that plants “feel” emotions, as humans do, plants do show signs of “sensing” their surroundings. ... The term may sound provocative, because plants don't have brains – or even neurons, for that matter – and it could just be it's intended that way.

Do plants have feelings or feel pain?

Unlike us and other animals, plants do not have nociceptors, the specific types of receptors that are programmed to respond to pain. They also, of course, don't have brains, so they lack the machinery necessary to turn those stimuli into an actual experience. This is why plants are incapable of feeling pain.