"INFORMATIVE AND ORIGINAL" Guardian, 'This month's best paperbacks' 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 it's 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 Tamas puts roots down through earth and soil. This Book is a Plant is made from paper: it was once part of a tree. But it's also a seed: the first shoots of a radical new way of seeing the world around you. "AN ECLECTIC ANTHOLOGY GUARANTEED TO MAKE THE HEARTS OF EARTH LOVERS BEAT FASTER" Metro

The way we think about plants is about to change forever: this is your handbook to a new natural world.

About the Author
Susie Orbach | Rebecca Tamas | Merlin Sheldrake | Rowan Hisayo Buchanan | Sheila Watt-Cloutier | Eduardo Navarro | Michael Marder | Araceli Camargo | Kim Walker | Nataly Canales | Jessica J Lee | Sumana Roy | Emanuele Coccia | Abi Palmer | Amanda Thomson | Robin Wall Kimmerer This Book is a Plant is the companion to Wellcome Collection's exhibition 'Rooted Beings', opening in 2022.

Reviews
This informative and original anthology ... challenge[s] conventional ideas about plant life and especially the Western world's exploitative attitude towards nature. * Guardian, 'This month's best paperbacks' *
An eclectic anthology guaranteed to make the hearts of earth lovers beat faster * Metro *



Book Information
ISBN 9781788166928
Author Wellcome Collection
Format Paperback
Page Count 208
Imprint Wellcome Collection
Publisher Profile Books Ltd
Weight(grams) 167g
Dimensions(mm) 196mm * 128mm * 16mm