The Secret Life of Plants

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

By: Peter Tompkins, Christopher Bird

Narrated by: D. Michael Hope

Length: 16 hrs and 28 mins

Publisher's summary

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

You Need To Know These Things

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.

this carefully woven work of art gave me insight!

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

very interesting

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

consciousness elevating

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!

Magical, uplifing and hopeful.

i loved this writing. Surprising and uplifing, it made me even more hopeful about this world.

everyone should hear this!

must listen, what an incredible connection. this is so meaningful and educational, scientific, spiritual, necessary!

Hocus pocus or science?

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.

interesting but pseudoscientific

The idea that plants have consciousness and special ability to sense others is interesting and I do not think it's wrong (or right). But the "scientific" experiments mentioned in the book seemed to me very pseudoscientific. That feeling of doubt about methods used in the examples did not go away as I continued listening but got stronger.

There's limit to current science and measurement technology. A lot of conjectures started in the book goes beyond such ability and thus they cannot be answers with the scientific methods described in the book (e.g. plants have ability to receive signals faster than speed of light). Measuring electric current or disturbance in magnetic field by plants

Completely fascinating! Food for thought!

Lots of information!
There are so many anecdotal stories we have heard of plants reacting to their human care givers. So, while some of these seem far fetched, I don't think they necessarily are. We have come farther with thought controlled technology. We see articles on it now.

The excerpts in this book, such as the Japanese scientist and his communicating counting cactus is beyond belief, well we have records that his results did occur. Plus, if you search there are TED talks on such things!

If anything, this just proves that positive thoughts really do make a difference in the quality of your life.

A must read!

I had no idea that plants are not only listening to us but they also understand our needs. This book lays down the law of plants that is not only nourishing our bodies but as well as our entire universe. This book is the awakening of body, mind, and spirit. I guess my neighbors are going to have to get used to seeing me talking to all of the plants in the neighborhood!