What a Plant Knows A Field Guide to the Senses of Your Garden - and Beyond

One of Amazon's Ten Best Science & Math Books of 2012 One of "Chicago Tribune"'s Favorite Books of 2012 A "Los Angeles Times" 2012 Summer Reading Selection "Of the dozens of books I read in 2012, several stand out. But there's one I keep coming back to, thumbing through it, letting people know about it. It's Daniel Chamovitz's "What A Plant Knows: A Field Guide to the Senses . . . "It's incredibly interesting material, presented in an entertaining and fun way -- in about only 140 pages. "What A Plant Knows" is a nice fit on my shelf of gardening books -- and that's where it will stay. Although I've recommended the book to several people, I've ungraciously not let them borrow my copy. I fear I won't get it back." --"Chicago Tribune" "The reader...will find enough absorbing science to concede that plants continue to inspire and amaze us. It's time, as Joni Mitchell sang at Woodstock, 'to get ourselves back to the garden' and take a closer look at plants." --"The Wall Street Journal
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"This elegantly written account of plant biology will change the way you see your garden...Chamovitz lets us see plants in a new light, one which reveals their true wonder." --"The Guardian" "Thick with eccentric plant experiments and astonishing plant science." --"Sunday Times" (UK) "Plants may be brainless, eyeless and devoid of senses as we know them, but they have a rudimentary 'awareness', says biologist Daniel Chamovitz. In this beautiful reframing of the botanical, he reveals the extent and kind of that awareness through a bumper crop of research." --"Nature ""For everyone who has wondered at "Mimosa," the suddenly snapping Venus flytrap or the way a sunflower's head unerringly turns to follow the sun, Daniel Chamovitz has written the perfect book." --"American Scientist ""[A] fascinating inside look at what a plant's life is like, and a new lens on our own place in nature." --Maria Popova, "Brain Pickings
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