![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() “For everyone who has wondered at Mimosa, the suddenly snapping Venus flytrap or the way a sunflower’s head unerringly turns to follow the sun, Daniel Chamovitz has written the perfect book.” ― American Scientist In this beautiful reframing of the botanical, he reveals the extent and kind of that awareness through a bumper crop of research.” ― Nature “Plants may be brainless, eyeless and devoid of senses as we know them, but they have a rudimentary ‘awareness’, says biologist Daniel Chamovitz. “Thick with eccentric plant experiments and astonishing plant science.” ― Sunday Times (UK) “This elegantly written account of plant biology will change the way you see your garden…Chamovitz lets us see plants in a new light, one which reveals their true wonder.” ― The Guardian It’s time, as Joni Mitchell sang at Woodstock, ‘to get ourselves back to the garden’ and take a closer look at plants.” ― The Wall Street Journal “The reader…will find enough absorbing science to concede that plants continue to inspire and amaze us. It’s Daniel Chamovitz’s What A Plant Knows: A Field Guide to the Senses.” ― Chicago Tribune But there’s one I keep coming back to, thumbing through it, letting people know about it. “Of the dozens of books I read in 2012, several stand out. ![]()
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