RE: My Beautiful Disasters as an A^^hole Gardener

[owasco]

Oh honey if you sent me that link, I will never be able to find it again! It sounds great and I will order it.

Of course plants have feelings. I read a book The Secret Life of Plants when I was twenty, and have had no doubt about it ever since. It's pretty obvious if you just listen to them. Of course, we have to use senses other than our ears to hear their messages, because they appear in our brains as thoughts of our own. Plants have some highly sophisticated communication technology humans have been told does not even exist.

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[carolkean]

The Secret Life of Plants - how have I not read this yet? by Peter Tompkins, Christopher Bird, 1973

The Secret Life of Plants includes remarkable information about plants as lie detectors and plants as ecological sentinels; it describes their ability to adapt to human wishes, their response to music, their curative powers, and their ability to communicate with man. Authors Peter Tompkins and Christopher Bird suggest that the most far-reaching revolution of the 20th century — one that could save or destroy the planet — may come from the bottom of your garden.

Peter Tompkins was an American journalist, World War II spy, and best-selling author.
His best known and most influential books include The Secret Life of Plants, published in 1973, Secrets of the Great Pyramid, reprinted in paperback in 1997, and Mysteries of the Mexican Pyramids, published in 1976.

Only recently, I started reading about trees and their extensive underground communication systems (and healing each other). Makes that talking tree in Disney's Pocahontas seem less like fantasy.

[owasco]

I suspect true stuff shows up in fantasy, sci-fi movies, just so that we will think they could never really be true. When so much of it is! Matrix anyone?

[carolkean]

Great insight!
The truth is best hidden in the guise of fiction...
Or, as you suggest, if you hide the truth in a fictional story, people will think, "Oh, it's just another fiction," when in fact... yeah.
Blue pill, or red?
Knowledge, or happiness?