The Language of Plants

The Language of Plants boasts a consistent and compelling through-line: what kind of 'languages' plants use and how the plant languages themselves might change the languages humans use to talk about plants. A collection of high-quality essays like this one constitutes a very timely introduction and intervention in critical plant studies. -Jeffrey T. Nealon, author of Plant Theory: Biopower and Vegetable Life The Language of Plants is an excellent and important collection of original essays that intervene in the exceptionally rapidly growing field of critical plant studies, contributing to a contemporary movement to de-center the human, overcome dualistic thinking, and grant agency, intelligence, and consciousness to matter. -Cheryll Glotfelty, co-editor of The Bioregional Imagination: Literature, Ecology, and Place Any individuals concerned for plants and the environment will find this a worthwhile, thought-provoking book. -CHOICE From notions of plant intelligence to decoding the lexicon of compounds that allows vegetal life to communicate with friends, foes and themselves, this mind-expanding work opens up new ways of apprehending the world. -The Sydney Morning Herald The editors have gathered essays from the realms of science, literature and philosophy to make a provocative read in hopes of deepening the appreciation of the interdependence of humans and plants. -The Age