This book is a plant : how to grow, learn and radically engage with the natural world.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Wellcome Collection, issuing body.

Rosengarten Family Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Human-plant relationships.

Plants.

Human ecology.

Traditional ecological knowledge.

Ethnobotany.

Nature, Healing power of.

human ecology.

Genre:

Essays

Essays.

Physical Description:

189 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm.

Place of Publication:

London : Profile Books, 2023.

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.

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.

Notes:

Published in association with Wellcome Collection.

First published in 2022.

Includes bibliographical references.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Rosengarten Family Fund.

ISBN:

9781788166928 (paperback)

1788166922 (paperback)

OCLC:

1382266541

Publisher Number:

99996045373