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The Secret Life of Plants By Peter TompkinsChristopher Bird ( Harper Paperbacks )
Release Date: 1989-03-08
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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
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 The Secret Life of Plants
The Secret Life of Plants
We have had an older edition of this book for many years and read it so often that it fell apart!!!! And so we bought a new one. That in itself should be recommendation enough. It's a fascinating book!! Alas not for vegetarians, because they would feel like going back to eating meat!!
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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!
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Biology 101 for the 21st Century ( theunknownsurfer )
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.
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Another seminal work ( p.campbell@bigfoot.com )
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).
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 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 periodic table of the elements and properly transcribed the correct atomic nomenclature for each element. But then they confused chemical reactions with nuclear reactions in nonsensical equations that, however, seem perfectly reasonable to the vast majority of even college-educated nonscientists.
Their equations actually describe nuclear reactions that are impossible. But in any case, real nuclear reactions are carried out in nuclear bombs and nuclear reactors (and stars), not in plants. Their entire book is filled with pseudoscientific nonsense.
(Excerpt from "Challenging Nature" by Lee Silver, Paperback ed. 2007, p.229)
Sums it up pretty well. If you don't get the point, please take time to read essentials of chemistry, you won't regret it.
Instead I would like to recommend to you "The Private Life of Plants" by David Attenborough, which accompanied the BBC TV series of the same name.
I gobbled it up as a kid, and it sparked a passion for cultivating orchids and carnivorous plants for a while.
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Addiction
