Thus Spoke the Plant - A Remarkable Journey of Groundbreaking Scientific Discoveries and Personal Encounters with Plants (Gagliano Monica)(Paperback / softback)

This compelling story of a scientist's discovery of plant communication reveals how we "have been misunderstanding plants, and ourselves, for all of history"--for fans of The Hidden Life of Trees (The Paris Review). In this "phytobiography"--a collection of stories written in partnership with a plant--research scientist Monica Gagliano shares genuine first-hand accounts from her research into plant communication and cognition. By transcending the view of plants as the objects of scientific materialism, Gagliano encourages us to rethink plants as people--beings with subjectivity, consciousness, and volition, and hence having the capacity for their own perspectives and voices. The book draws on up-close-and-personal encounters with the plants themselves, as well as plant shamans, indigenous elders, and mystics from around the world and integrates
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