The Light Eaters
Book description
"teeming with fascinating and enlightening insights" Observer
A narrative investigation into the new science of plant intelligence and sentience, from National Association of Science Writers Award winner and Livingston Award finalist Zoe Schlanger.
Look at the green organism across the room or through the window: the potted plant, or the…
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Fascinating topic, blew my mind and changed how I think about plants.
This book really blew me away. First of all, I'm a gardener and a plant lover--and I talk to my plants, too. But Schlanger's principled, passionate pursuit of the contemporary scientific understanding of "plant consciousness" was mind-shattering. She's an excellent writer and her research fully persuasive. But even more, she offers a glimpse of a completely revolutionary way of seeing the world we inhabit. It's a clear instance of Thomas Kuhn's notion of scientific revolution--or the 100th monkey. Once we see what these scientists are seeing, everything will change. Meanwhile, I'll never prune a rose or cut the grass without…
As someone deeply immersed in the world of botany as an artist, photographer, and gardener I love reading an expanded story about the world of plants, their society, and how they communicate. There's more to the personality and character of the plant world than one expects, although it moves on a very different time scale than we are used to.
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