Recommended Reading List - about our relationship with plants
RobinWall Kimmerer – Braiding Sweetgrass : Anindigenous woman who has studied in the conventional sciences so can see bothways of looking explores our relationship with plants and the land.
Zoe Schlanger -The Light Eaters: How the Unseen World of Plant Intelligence Offers a NewUnderstanding of Life on Earth
Suzanne Simard - Finding the Mother Tree : a woman who follows herintuition and dares to see the world differently. Origin of the‘Wood Wide Web’ but also a story about her life as a woman in a man’s world.
Monica Gagliano – Thus Spoke the Plant : Scientist Monica’s research includesdemonstrating that plants can learn, remember, and communicate with otherplants
Sharon Blackie - If Women Rose Rooted : eco-feministnovel exploring how women havea deep connection with nature
Michael Pollan - The Botany of Desire : A Plants Eyeview. Perhaps we are the ones being used by plants as they lure us to grow them…
Daniel Chamovitz - What a Plant Knows : this elegantly written account ofplant biology will change the way you see your garden.
Richard Powers - The Overstory : A novel about greenactivists and their struggle
Mervin Sheldrake – Entangled Life : A study of fungireveals howlife-forms interpenetrate and change each other continuously.
Stephano Mancuso – Brilliant Green : not only are plants intelligentand sentient, but we should consider their rights. Summed up here:
Stephen Harrod Buhner -
- The Spell of the Senses - explores how the human mind came torenounce its sensuous bearings, isolating itself from the other animals and theanimate Earth
- Lost Language of Plants - the state of theenvironment, the state of health care, and our cultural sanity.
- The Secret teachings of Plants - bypass the linearintelligence of the brain and tap into the nonlinear intelligenceof the heart.
And finally for those who dont like non fiction a hilariousbook about highly evolved plant beings hijacking a reality television show, andwhat happens when plants are in charge!
M.K. Nadall- Return of the Yggdrasil