The Secret Life of Plants - by Peter Tompkins & Christopher Bird (Paperback)

Book Synopsis

"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 into plant perception, 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 for plant communication 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.

This landmark book reveals a stunning new dimension of the natural world:

• Sentient Plants: Discover the evidence suggesting plants are complex, aware beings that respond to human emotions, intentions, and even unspoken thoughts.
• Plants and ESP: Follow the groundbreaking research, from Cleve Backster's polygraph experiments to Soviet discoveries, that suggests a form of extrasensory perception exists in the vegetal kingdom.
• The Harmonic Life of Plants: Learn how plants react to music, sound, and other vibrations, and how these frequencies can dramatically influence their growth and vitality.
• A New Vision of Nature: Re-examine humanity's relationship with the environment through a lens that reveals the deep, psychic interconnectedness of all life.

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Review Quotes

"Once in a while you find a book that stuns you. This is such a book. It's scope leaves you breathless." - San Francisco Chronicle

"The Secret Life of Plants captured international attention. . . . A best-selling book that claimed that plants have emotional feelings." - Los Angeles Times

"An epic panorama." - New York Times Book Review

"The cult favorite, which hypothesized that plants may be sentient. . . . Fantastic revelations!" - New York Times

"Incredible. ... Bristles with plenty of hard facts and astounding scientific and practical lore." - Newsweek

"This fascinating book... roams over that marvelous no man's land of mystical glimmerings into the nature of science and life itself." - Washington Post