The Secret Life of Plants: A Fascinating Account of the Physical, Emotional, and Spiritual Relations Between Plants and Man
Written by Peter Tompkins and Christopher Bird
Narrated by D. Michael Hope
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""Once in a while you find a book that stuns you. Its scope leaves you breathless. This is such a book."" — John White, San Francisco Chronicle
Explore the inner world of plants and its fascinating relation to mankind, as uncovered by the latest discoveries of science. In this truly revolutionary and beloved work, drawn from remarkable research, Peter Tompkins and Christopher Bird cast light on the rich psychic universe of plants.
The Secret Life of Plants explores plants' response to human care and nurturing, their ability to communicate with man, plants' surprising reaction to music, their lie-detection abilities, their creative powers, and much more. Tompkins and Bird's classic book affirms the depth of humanity's relationship with nature and adds special urgency to the cause of protecting the environment that nourishes us.
Peter Tompkins
Peter Tompkins was an American journalist, World War II spy, and best-selling author. His best known and most influential books include The Secret Life of Plants, published in 1973, Secrets of the Great Pyramid, reprinted in paperback in 1997, and Mysteries of the Mexican Pyramids, published in 1976. He is the father of author Ptolemy Tompkins.
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- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Amazing knowledge however written in a very academic style which made the audiobook seem heavy sometimes to listen to. Nonetheless, I am glad I made it to the end. I will never look at the plants the same slightly indifferent way
- Rating: 2 out of 5 stars2/5While there is some good information in this book, for the most part this book gives plant people a bad name. Yes, plants communicate, but why harm plants while studying this?If you love plants, this book will likely make you cringe hearing about the cruel scientific experiments on plants. And if you don't love plants, this book may make you think that all of us who love plants are a bit crazy.
- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Most interesting for its overview of the history of botany, and especially of the Indian scientist Bose. The New Age-y experiments it describes are impressive but pretty incredible. Overall it feels disingenuous in the way it presents these pseudoscientific experiments.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5I based a research paper on this in the late 70s and it was summarily dismissed. That influenced my path in life, and taught me that there are oppositions to be met in academia, which tend to be fought in a wussy indirect sort of way, just by ignoring or criticizing other stuff. I will always be grateful to these authors for giving some scientific data to a subject that would otherwise be very hard to even face and consider.Time to ask the plants their opinions of the GM thing.