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Thus Spoke the Plant

A Remarkable Journey of Groundbreaking Scientific Discoveries and Personal Encounters with Plants

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Thus Spoke the Plant

By: Monica Gagliano, Suzanne Simard - introduction
Narrated by: Julie Slater
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 An accessible and compelling story of a scientist's discovery of plant communication and how it influenced her research and changed her life.

In this "phytobiography"--a collection of stories written in partnership with a plant--research scientist Monica Gagliano reveals the dynamic role plants play in genuine first-hand accounts from her research into plant communication and cognition. By transcending the view of plants as the objects of scientific materialism, Gagliano encourages us to rethink plants as people--beings with subjectivity, consciousness, and volition, and hence having the capacity for their own perspectives and voices. The book draws on up-close-and-personal encounters with the plants themselves, as well as plant shamans, indigenous elders, and mystics from around the world and integrates these experiences with an incredible research journey and the groundbreaking scientific discoveries that emerged from it. Gagliano has published numerous peer-reviewed scientific papers on how plants have a Pavlov-like response to stimuli and can learn, remember, and communicate to neighboring plants. She has pioneered the brand-new research field of plant bioacoustics, for the first time experimentally demonstrating that plants emit their own 'voices' and, moreover, detect and respond to the sounds of their environments. By demonstrating experimentally that learning is not the exclusive province of animals, Gagliano has re-ignited the discourse on plant subjectivity and ethical and legal standing. This is the story of how she made those discoveries and how the plants helped her along the way. Biological Sciences Botany & Plants Ecology Nature & Ecology Other Religions, Practices & Sacred Texts Outdoors & Nature Science Shamanism Consciousness Plant Science
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This book is an enlightening and engaging spiritual awakening. A must read that I will listen to over and over.

Astounding!

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this book opened a possibility for me and for our planet... that maybe all is not lost, but that plants may be out allies in wanting to save the Earth, but we just need to learn how to listen... thank you Monica for your courage to walk in both worlds at once...

eye-opening, heart-opening

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an amazing personal account of the interconnectedness of life.
brilliantly narrated humble words of wisdom

incredible

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I loved this book from the first chapter to the end. Highly recommend to anyone curious about seeing the world in a different way; way that evokes evolution of human consciousness and the way we relate to our world and all life within.

Beautiful, revolutionary and easy to read

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I've listened to this over and over. I love it. it's incredible, thankyou Monica Gagliano

incredible

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