Books : Secret Life of Plants
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by: Peter Tompkins, Christopher O. Bird
Binding: Paperback
EAN: 9780060911126
ISBN: 0060911123
Label: HarperCollins Publishers
Manufacturer: HarperCollins Publishers
Number Of Items: 1
Publication Date: 1984-04
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Sales Rank: 872636
Studio: HarperCollins Publishers
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Product Description:
The world of plants and its relation to mankind as revealed by the latest scientific discoveries. 'Plenty of hard facts and astounding scientific and practical lore.'--Newsweek
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating:  - already half way through
i ordered this book and a dvd at the same time elsewhere, and im already halfway through the book and the dvd has yet to be opened. thanks!
Rating: - Biology 101 for the 21st Century
This book should be part of every Biology class in school nowadays. Quantum Physics has proven that every particle has consciousness, so why should it be so hard to believe that plants are capable of feelings and thought? Even close to 20 years after it was published, the book is still in a class by itself. I especially liked the section on how plants responded to different music genres, although mine seem to grow better to reggae than classical music.
Rating: - Another seminal work
Along with Secrets of the Soil by the same authors, a ground-breaking work that will make you rethink your entire view of the universe. Decades ahead of the scientific establishment (and I should know; I'm part of it).
Rating:  - Plants as a nuclear reactor
"Calcium (Ca) can come from potassium (K) with the interaction of hydrogen (H) according to the formula* 1H plus 19K equals 20Ca, or from magnesium with the interaction of oxygen in 12Mg plus 8O equals 20Ca."
("The Secret Life of Plants", NewYork:HarperCollins, 1973, p.285)
* My sincere apologies: imagine the numbers on the left as the atomic number on the lower left. I don't know how to assign it correctly in this review box).
Tompkins and Bird looked at the ... Read More
Rating:  - Excellent Gift for Vegetarians !
I first read this book in the mid-70s. I've got a brother-in-law who's a vegetarian and I will pick this up for him. I actually eat vegetarian most of the time (beef cattle and elk are classified as vegetarians aren't they?).
I believe that if Vegetarians are really serious about the pain and suffering that is inflicted on animals at slaughter, maybe they need to look at their argument from another perspective. The elk and deer that I hunt live a wonderful and free existence (until it gets ... Read More
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