Published in association with Wellcome Collection. First published in 2022. Includes bibliographical references.
Contents:
Vegetal transmutation / Eduardo Navarro & Michael Marder -- Before roots / Merlin Sheldrake -- Self-portrait as a mushroom in the damp and leafy forest / Abi Palmer -- Strange soil / Rebecca Tamás -- Plants know / Emanuele Coccia -- Wilder flowers / Rowan Hisayo Buchanan -- Bitter barks: legacies and futures of the famous fever tree / Kim Walker & Nataly Allasi Canales -- How to study the mosses / Jessica J. Lee -- A planet without flowers / Surmana Roy -- Eco revenge / Susie Orbach -- Nature as health / Araceli Camargo -- What the wind can bring / Amanda Thomson -- Upirngasaq (Arctic spring) / Sheila Watt-Cloutier -- Braiding sweetgrass / Robin Wall Kimmerer.
Summary:
We've become used to thinking of plants as things for us to use: as food, tools, resources, or just as an attractive background to our own lives. But its time to change our minds. New research shows that plants can think, plan and may even have memories. We share our planet with beings whose potential we have only glimpsed. Featuring the writing of Robin Wall Kimmerer, Susie Orbach and Merlin Sheldrake, This Book is a Plant will be your handbook to the new reality: showing you a pathway to completely reimagine your relationship with a different kind of natural world. Delve into a world of moss and fungi: Sheila Watt-Cloutier transports us to the Arctic Spring, Rowan Hisayo Buchanan discovers the pleasures of painting trees, and Rebecca Tamás puts roots down through earth and soil. This Book is a Plant is made from paper: it was once part of a tree.
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