The thinking behind this month’s theme can be summarized in the following quote from Stephen Harrod Buhner, who is also this month’s interview subject: “Because all life-forms, irrespective of their nature, must, to survive, have a sense of not me, they all have a sense of self, they are in fact self-aware. “Because all life forms, irrespective of their nature, must, to survive, be able to analyze the nature of […]
Tag Archives | Plant intelligence
Movies you might’ve missed | Plant intelligence
The Secret Life of Plants is a 1979 documentary made about the 1973 book of the same name by Peter Tompkins and Christopher Bird. The book created quite a stir with its presentation of research making the case that plants are indeed sentient, despite their apparent lack of a nervous system and a brain. Although mainstream scientists debunked most of the book’s and movie’s claims, current research is reinvigorating them based […]
Stephen Harrod Buhner | The intelligence of plants
Stephen Harrod Buhner is an award-winning author of 22 books on nature, indigenous cultures, the environment, and herbal medicine. He comes from a long line of healers that include Leroy Burney, Surgeon General of the United States under Presidents Eisenhower and Kennedy, and Elizabeth Lusterheide, a midwife and herbalist who worked in rural Indiana in the early nineteenth century. He says that the greatest influence on his work, however, has […]
Joe Cottonwood | Intelligent plant poetry
How to Make a Walking Stick Find a branch that has fallen from a tree. Ask the tree if you may use this wood. Wait for the answer (sometimes trees are slow). Listen to the call of the crow, the bark of the fox. If bird or fox speak, they speak for the tree, and the answer is Yes. Or if no animal calls, if no wind rustles, but if […]
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