The Secret Life of Plants

By David M. Finkel and Diane Kennedy

Book Overview

"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 ChronicleExplore 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. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Mass Market Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0380000881
• Release Date: January 1974
• Publisher: AVON BOOKS
• Length: 416 Pages
• Weight: 0.54 lbs.

Customer Reviews

Read with an open mind.

This is a great book if you let it. I started with "Secret Life of Soil" figuring start there, for from soil, comes the plant. I ended up ditching that effort and starting here. First, the soil thing got Spacey in a rush. Right around manure stuffed bull horns to be buried over a winter I started to question my reasons for reading. I enjoy gardening. I appreciate the idea of an "all one" theory. I am beginning to appreciate...

this will forever change how you view your houseplants......

I am not exaggerating. When I picked up a copy of THE SECRET LIFE OF PLANTS, to go on a journey into the previously "unknown" world of plants, it was listed as, both, a new age and an occult book. Yes, to some it sounds pretty woo woo and out there that the common houseplant could take such a liking to Brahms, or such a disliking to hard rock music, that it would be driven to either thrive or shrivel. Yet, according to...

This book changed the way I view the world..

The studies described in this book are phenominal. I will truly never look at plants the same. This book provides information on plants at a scientific and metaphysic level, that you probably have never heard before; at least I havent. It is truly shocking! I recommend this book to all the "green thumbs" out there who know what it is like to communicate with plants, and want more information on how this communication takes...

A Profound Study of The Plant Kingdom

The study of plants and human interaction come to life in this fine book and if read with an open mind and heart, one will no doubt be left with a new sense of awe and empathy for our plant world. Chapter after chapter relates a multitude of discoveries from plant research around the world that demonstrate how plants grow, metabolize, and communicate not only within their own structure, but with all other life forms. Some...

Your best friends.....

THE SECRET LIFE OF PLANTS by Peter Tompkins and Christopher Bird is a wonderful book of wisdom about the plant world and life in general. Like many people my age, I cut my teeth on Disney's "Living Desert" back in the 1950s. That film killed the notion for me that nothing lives in Death Valley and if Death Valley can be alive what else is possible?SECRET LIFE is like the old Disney films because the book describes science...