Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #57206 in Books
• Published on: 1989-03-31
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 416 pages

Customer Reviews

Amazing Stories of the Natural World
The Secret Life of Plants describes the exploits of plant geniuses throughout the world, for example, a great Bengali scientist, knighted by King George V for his achievements, Sir Jagadis Chandra Bose, who discovered the interrelationship of plants and electromagnetism. There is also the Russian husband-wife team, the Kirlians, who discovered a way of photographing the aura around living things. In addition, you can read about Canadian researchers at the University of Ottawa, who used sound vibrations to speed up the growth of plants.

You can also read about George Washington Carver, famous for transforming the peanut into many marketable products, and Luther Burbank, the plant genius who developed marvelous new varieties in his plant breeding programs. If you want to learn about their achievements, you can look them up in an Encyclopedia. But if you really want to know what they did to produce their amazing achievements, you need to read The Secret Life of Plants.

This book contains details about their childhoods, for example, that George Washington Carver was a frail child and that he maintained a secret greenhouse in the woods where he cured sick plants. Also, that as a child, he used plants to cure sick animals.

You can also learn about the way these geniuses worked with plants, for example, that Luther Burbank had an amazing intuitive ability to know which of the plants in his plant breeding experiments contained the traits he desired. He evidently could go through millions of seedlings and pick out the ones that showed the most promise.

There are many more fascinating topics covered in this book, among them, the North Scotland community of Findhorn that works with nature spirits to produce amazing gardens, that dowsing is considered a respected science in France, and that the alchemists’ goal of transmuting elements is effortlessly accomplished everyday by plants.

Co-author, Peter Tompkins, who also penned such fascinating tomes as Secrets of the Great Pyramid and Mysteries of the Mexican Pyramids, unearths fascinating information by detailing the work of scientists shunned by conformist academia.

Being an avid organic gardener, I especially enjoyed learning why and how chemical fertilizers deplete the soil of nutrients, and also the amazing research that shows that plant can produce the nutrients they need without supplemental chemicals or additives.

Probably The Secret Life of Plants is the most valuable to me because it shows how scientists using plants were able to prove the reality of telepathy, something researchers holding up index cards to human subjects have not been able to do adequately.

This book has information that MUST be shared with the world
This was a very informative book. It shows how scientists have recently proven plant thought, emotion, and sensing powers. This book must be read by as many people as possible (except parts of chapter two) before any more of the horrible plant abuse that I am constantly witnessing takes place. This book confirmed many beliefs about plants that I had prior to reading it, and it will help in much of my own experimentation. Thank you Peter Tompkins and Christopher Bird!

Amazing info and discoveries!
It was a great feeling reading this book as it confirmed what I'd already thought, which is that plants have feelings to! Hopefully, people will now respect the Plant kingdom more and see them in a different light. I think Plants have so much to offer us, not just in the oxgyen they release for us to breathe or in the beauty of their growth, but in healing remedies too. This book takes you through the miracle of the plant and certainly opened my eyes to the amazing 'secret' abilities they have. A good read for anyone! Enjoy!