The world of plants and its relation to mankind as revealed by the latest scientific discoveries. “Plenty of hard facts and astounding scientific and practical lore.”–Newsweek
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- Sales Rank: #14145 in Books
- Published on: 1989-03-08
- Released on: 1989-03-08
- Original language:
English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: .90″ h x
5.30″ w x
8.20″ l,
.66 pounds
- Binding: Paperback
- 402 pages
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This Sunday on Sott Talk Radio, we’re interviewing John Perkins, author, public speaker, and founder of two nonprofit organizations, Dream Change and The Pachamama
- Sales Rank: #14145 in Books
- Published on: 1989-03-08
- Released on: 1989-03-08
- Original language:
English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: .90″ h x
5.30″ w x
8.20″ l,
.66 pounds
- Binding: Paperback
- 402 pages
The world of plants and its relation to mankind as revealed by the latest scientific discoveries. “Plenty of hard facts and astounding scientific and practical lore.”–Newsweek
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238 of 261 people found the following review helpful.
Your best friends…..
By Dianne Foster
THE SECRET LIFE OF PLANTS by Peter Tompkins and Christopher Bird is a wonderful book of wisdom about the plant world and life in general. Like many people my age, I cut my teeth on Disney’s “Living Desert” back in the 1950s. That film killed the notion for me that nothing lives in Death Valley and if Death Valley can be alive what else is possible?SECRET LIFE is like the old Disney films because the book describes science that challenges stereotypical mainstream thinking. Anyone who believes plants are sentient beings will love this book. If you’ve done much reading on this subject you’ve probably seen Tompkins and Bird quoted elsewhere.In the first part of their book, the authors explore the attributes of plants and pretty much conclude they have everything in common with animals-except plants probably came first on the evolutionary ladder and prepared the way for animals. In fact, if earth was invaded by alien species, the authors suggest the aliens were probably plants. But, you say, plants have roots and stay put (for the most part) and plants produce chlorophyll. Shell fish (oysters, mussels) and sea anemones can be rooted to one spot and small protozoa-like creatures produce chlorophyll.Probably the thing I like the best about this book is that finally, someone links the Chakras to real body parts-the seven endocrine centers–and explains the reasons why these “hot spots” are so important. Also, Tompkins and Bird explain the scientific reasoning behind Bach flower remedies and many other “new age” products you can find at Fresh Fields and other holistic stores.Skeptics will always have doubts, but after 30 years of organic gardening and non-academic exposure to plants, I know Tompkins and Bird are onto something. So do many modern scientists who have discovered belatedly that much of what the authors described 30 years ago may be true afterall.Cutting edge scientists are frequently ignored. Once upon a time some people thought George Washington Carver was a fruitcake because he thought plants had feelings (they do). Carver discovered many unusual things as did a number of other later Nobel winners, although sometimes folks like Gregor Mendel were not recognized until it was too late.If you want to be a better person, a wiser consumer, a great gardener, and healthier, you owe it to yourself to read THE SECRET LIFE OF PLANTS. It isn’t all about them.
83 of 93 people found the following review helpful.
this will forever change how you view your houseplants……
By D. Pawl
I am not exaggerating. When I picked up a copy of THE SECRET LIFE OF PLANTS, to go on a journey into the previously “unknown” world of plants, it was listed as, both, a new age and an occult book. Yes, to some it sounds pretty woo woo and out there that the common houseplant could take such a liking to Brahms, or such a disliking to hard rock music, that it would be driven to either thrive or shrivel. Yet, according to scientists and scientific scholars, stranger things have happened–and, in their words and by their accounts, they really DID happen! For example, plants who were the subjects of numerous tests and studies in a laboratory, were proven to have “human-like” feelings for the people that they were introduced to. In fact, the relationships progressed to the point that when one of the participants in the study nearly got run over by public transportation on the street, the participating plant was recorded in reacting in alarm to the peril that the human subject was put in! This wasn’t all. Plants also are also proven, in this book, to respond to human sexuality in a very powerful (if not anthropomorphized) manner. Besides the studies, we are introduced to the beliefs of Goethe and the scientific progress made by George Washington Carver (of peanut cultivation fame).I can definitely see why this engrossing book inspired a soundtrack and an (as of today) unreleased documentary film. This book, written by Peter Tompkins and Christopher Bird, is, quite possibly one of the most engrossing books pertaining to biology and modern-day symbiotic relationships between plants and humans that I have ever read. If THE SECRET LIFE OF PLANTS had been assigned reading in my high school biology class, I might have chosen a different path in college (in the plant sciences, perhaps!). If that isn’t a vote of confidence from me, the humble liberal arts major, I don’t know what is! Read this fantastic book today.
104 of 123 people found the following review helpful.
Loopy and fascinating
By A. Bannigan
This book changed my life. I found it absolutely fascinating and was stunned when my PhD supervisor (I’m a plant biologist) told me that she had read it too. I was interested to know where the amazing information came from that they present and was dissapointed, but not particularly surprised, that all the “science” that they refer to is published in journals with names like “The Russian Journal of Parapsychology” and the like. Not a single one was in a journal that I could easily get access to, so, while it is wonderful food for thought and a great hommage to the importance and wonder of plants, the evidence they present should be taken with a grain of salt unless you can find other research backing it up. But enjoy. It really is mind-boggling!
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