Campanella held that earth, plants, and metals feel sensations

Evidence

Telesio’s naturalism was an important formative influence on the early ideas of Campanella. Campanella asserted that the earth, the plants, and the metals were living beings with sense and feelings. Plants and animals derived their matter from the earth and their activity and motion from the sun. The sun was an “active, diffusive, and incorporeal power.” Sense and feelings were characteristic of active causes. “That the sun and the earth feel is undeniable,” he asserted. — Carolyn Merchant, The Death of Nature, 486