探索植物意识和人类与自然世界的互动。
从苹果到阿亚瓦斯卡，从咖啡到库尔拉宗，从西番莲到佩约特，植物都是有意识的生物。长期以来，研究人员、科学家、精神导师和寻求者一直在研究它们之间、与人类以及与整个世界之间的相互作用。《植物的心灵：植物智能的叙事》汇集了所有这些学科的作品，以及一系列文章，强调了我们对植物生命的了解和直觉。
《植物的心灵》由丹尼斯·麦肯纳（Dennis McKenna）撰写前言，是一本关于植物及其与人类互动的短文、叙事和诗歌集。投稿人包括《纽约时报》畅销书《编结甜草》的作者罗宾·沃尔·金默尔、杰里米·纳比、约翰·金塞拉、路易斯·爱德华多·卢纳、梅根·卡明斯基等数十人。该书的编辑约翰·C·瑞安、帕特里夏·维埃拉和莫妮卡·加利亚诺——他们都为该书集贡献了作品——将散文、个人感想和诗歌与何塞·玛丽亚·普特的复杂插图结合在一起。
植物认知领域的最新科学研究强调了植物生命辨别选项、从先前经验中学习或思考的能力。《植物之心》包含了广泛解释这个概念的文本。正如麦肯纳在前言中所写，“读者在这里会发现，用诗歌和散文表达出来的故事，充满了珍贵的记忆，激发了人们对与一群在各个方面都与我们不同、却以无数方式触动人类生活的生物之间独特关系的庆祝。”
The Mind of Plants: Narratives of Vegetal Intelligence
Explorations of plant consciousness and human interactions with the natural world.
From apples to ayahuasca, coffee to kurrajong, passionflower to peyote, plants are conscious beings. How they interact with each other, with humanity and with the world at large has long been studied by researchers, scientists and spiritual teachers and seekers. The Mind of Plants: Narratives of Vegetal Intelligence brings together works from all these disciplines and more in a collection of essays that highlights what we know and what we intuit about botanical life.
The Mind of Plants, featuring a foreword by Dennis McKenna, is a collection of short essays, narratives and poetry on plants and their interaction with humans. Contributors include Robin Wall Kimmerer, author of the New York Times’ best seller Braiding Sweetgrass, Jeremy Narby, John Kinsella, Luis Eduardo Luna, Megan Kaminski and dozens more. The book’s editors, John C. Ryan, Patrícia Vieira and Monica Gagliano – each of whom also contributed works to the collection – weave together essays, personal reflections and poems paired with intricate illustrations by José María Pout.
Recent scientific research in the field of plant cognition highlights the capacity of botanical life to discern between options and learn from prior experiences or, in other words, to think. The Mind of Plants includes texts that interpret this concept broadly. As Mckenna writes in his foreword, “What the reader will find here, expressed in poetry and prose, are stories that are infused with cherished memories and inspired celebrations of unique relationships with a group of organisms that are alien and unlike us in every way, yet touch human lives in myriad ways.”
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