The Secret Life of Plants – Tompkins and Bird by TheOccultTruth.com
The Secret Life of Plants (1973) is a book by Peter Tompkins and Christopher Bird. The book, which is generally regarded as a pseudo-scientific work, discusses the alleged unusual phenomena regarding plants such as plant sentience, as well as alternative philosophy and alternative farming methods.The book was the basis for the 1979 documentary of the same name directed by Walon Green and featuring a soundtrack by Stevie Wonder, later released as Journey trough the secret life of plants.
These theories transcend science and proof, and, for the extend of my research, will be understood as a philosophical approach towards interaction between human and nature. The perpetual consciousness towards nature is something that should not be tried to be explained as a scientific matter (if it can not be proven), but maybe there is a space for cultural or artistic ways of understanding ourselves and our original place as a species in this world. I see in this way all the experiments done in the documentary and the book.
It is interesting deriving for my project the way persons perceive natural components in their life. There are human interactions with nature that can be tangible. Like the act of having dogs or houseplants. Even in the most dense cities people have pets and plants, and these are volunteer actions in which we’ve looked for and achieved a way of creating micro habitats for natural components. In my opinion we have been successful. These “secrets” are not that invisible anymore, when we see it that way.