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The Secret Life of Plants

A Fascinating Account of the Physical, Emotional, and Spiritual Relations Between Plants and Man

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The Secret Life of Plants

By: Peter Tompkins, Christopher Bird
Narrated by: D. Michael Hope
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Explore the inner world of plants and its fascinating relation to mankind, as uncovered by the latest discoveries of science. A perennial best seller!

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. Now available in a new edition, 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.

©2018 Peter Tompkins and Christopher Bird (P)2020 HarperCollins Publishers Biological Sciences Botany & Plants Outdoors & Nature Science Spirituality Inspiring Thought-Provoking Plant Science
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Nearly every sentence is a profound revelation and/or confirmation of things which you fundamentally recognize and know are true and accurate.

Oh, and The Man does Not want you to know any of it. After 170+ years of irrefutable scientific evidences and confirmations, it has all been harshly, continually, systematically, and conspiratorially suppressed and undermined by the conventional, ruling "science" establishments.

Why? All Truth has many powerful enemies.
But, you already know that.

Set yourself free. Listen to this book.

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The book was very interesting, sharing a vast amount of studies done on the unexpected characteristics, communication, and properties of plants. Not having looked into the book much prior to listening to it, I was surprised that there was so much on the realm of the esoteric. Definitely changes your perspective on plants!

The only drawback was that the person who recorded the audio for the book had a really hard time reading names, locations, and titles in foreign languages. These showed up quite a bit and it was distracting. It was otherwise great.

Very interesting, though a little heavy

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This book was all over the place. It was a look into the scientific study of plants and energy. It started out looking into looking into experiments to evaluate how plants reacted to different stimulants based on wires and meters hooked up to plants. It ventured into other areas including angstrom reading of plants, people, foods and water. It was interesting to see how they uncovered the water with supposed healing power had much higher Angstrom counts than normal waters, health people also had higher readings. The ideas expressed in these type books seem to always have that initial perception of hocus pocus, but usually have facts and studies to backup their strange point of view.

Hocus pocus or science?

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every topic covered on plants was either fascinating and astounding ; I felt like I was bring introduced to Life in another planet, and saw common plants around in a totally new light and perspective. I actually feel more connected now with Nature!

consciousness elevating

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ascinated, depth, new vision of life in fuller perspective.
backed by history,research ,science

this carefully woven work of art gave me insight!

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the book gave me a lot of ideas to think about , opened my mind to new possibilities

very interesting

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Beyond an outstanding overview of mankind’s interactions with and through plants over the coarse of known history, this book opens the mind to an Avatar-like world all around us. More relevant today than when it was originally written.

Mind boggling data from long ago, covered up in the name of capitalism.

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This is a great way to understand nature’s relationship to human life and animal life. Meaning each has its own harmonic structure that influences each other’s behavior. Definitely recommend listening to this one a few times.

The Secret Life of Plants

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Mind Blowing. If there were a couple of parts
of the book I didn't like, I don't remember them.
Wow, just wow. if 90% of this is true, "wow!"

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loved this book. I wish the concepts were commonly known and taught in school and agriculture.

performer did not know how to pronounce words

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